On January 10, 1946, 51 days after the Board of Regents formally created the athletics department, the Houston Cougar basketball program played its first game, stunning the North Texas State Teachers College (now UNT), 62-35. Months before the Cougar football team would assemble for their first spring practice, UH started playing basketball in the Lone … Continue reading 1946: UH wins first-ever game in a blowout