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Hakeem Abdul Olajuwon ( / əˈleɪʒu.ɒn / ə-LAY-zhoo-on; [ 1 ]Yoruba: [olaɟuwɔ̃]; born January 21, 1963), nicknamed " the Dream ", is a Nigerian-American former professional basketball player. [ 2 ] From 1984 to 2002, he played center in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Houston Rockets, and in his last season, the Toronto ...
The Houston Cougars men's basketball team represents the University of Houston in Houston, Texas, in the NCAA Division I men's basketball competition. They compete as members of the Big 12 Conference. The program has made six appearances in the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament Final Four, which is the most of any team who has not won ...
The Houston Cougars softball team is the college softball team of the University of Houston. The team is a member of the Big 12 Conference as a Division I team. Their home games are played at Cougar Softball Stadium on-campus. The team was established in 2001, and has appeared in nine NCAA Regionals and two Super Regionals.
Phi Slama Jama. University of Houston logo. Phi Slama Jama was a name given to the men's college basketball teams of the Houston Cougars from 1982 to 1984. Coined by former Houston Post sportswriter Thomas Bonk, [1] the nickname was quickly adopted by the players and even appeared on team warmup suits by the middle of the 1982–83 season.
The first ticket to the 2021 Men’s Final Four has been punched. Second-seeded Houston is in the Final Four for the first time in nearly 40 years. Back in the days of Phi Slama Jama in the early ...
On Thursday, University of Houston men’s basketball coach Kelvin Sampson revealed that the entire roster – 15 players – at one time or another tested positive for coronavirus including ...
Game of the CenturyCollege Basketball. In men's college basketball, the Game of the Century was a historic National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) game between the Houston Cougars and the UCLA Bruins played on January 20, 1968, at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas. It was the first NCAA regular season game broadcast nationwide in prime time.
Kelvin Sampson, the current head coach of the Houston Cougars. Guy Lewis, the winningest head coach in Cougars men's basketball history. The following is a list of Houston Cougars men's basketball head coaches. There have been nine head coaches of the Cougars in their 79-season history. Houston's current head coach is Kelvin Sampson.