Sampson inherited a struggling and irrelevant Houston Cougars program and rebuilt it from the ground up. The Coogs are back ...

Phi Slama Jama was the moniker given to Houston’s men’s basketball team during the 1982-83 season, with the label later ...

Hundreds of University of Houston students filled the Student Center South building on campus Monday night to watch their beloved Cougars Men’s Basketball Team play in the National Championship ...

Houston reached the NCAA title game in consecutive seasons in 1983 and 1984 during the Phi Slama Jama era but lost a pair of ...

The Chase for the Championship is on as the NCAA men’s basketball tournament narrows down to the all-one-seed Final Four, and ...

Houston basketball is a bit different than most teams, with coach Kelvin Sampson building a program model that is predicated on grit and defense. Sampson's core pillars have turned the Cougars ...

Bonk agreed and the nickname quickly caught fire, with the university ... into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2013 and the court at Houston’s arena, the Fertitta Center ...