Elvin Hayes
Cougar History
Big E Explodes In Wichita To Win The Midwest Regional
After an opening-round win over Loyola, the top-ranked Houston Cougars traveled to Wichita for back-to-back games in the 1968 Midwest Regional. UH beat #9...
Legends
Elvin Hayes, UH Set Scoring Records Vs. Valparaiso
On this day in 1968, #1 Houston destroyed Valparaiso, 158-81, at Delmar Fieldhouse. It was UH's eighth-straight game scoring 100+ points. That streak eventually...
The Final Four
1968 Final Four: #1 Houston heads to Los Angeles undefeated
No seed* | Midwest Region | Final Record: 31-2 | 1968 Full Bracket (PDF) *Seeding did not begin until the 1978-79 season. Top-ranked and 28-0...
By The Numbers
Is The Current Era As Good As The Late 60s Or PSJ?
The most interesting days to write about, well, anything I guess, are when you sit down with a theme or a story idea in...
Legends
Game of the Century: #2 Houston upsets #1 UCLA
Today in 1968, the University of Houston beat UCLA in the Game of the Century, 71-69. 52,693 people were in the Astrodome to see...
Legends
The Hype Before The Game of the Century
Guy V. Lewis started talking about it almost as soon as the Astrodome had opened in 1965. By early the following year, he convinced...
Legends
The Cougars will wear Home Whites From The Late-1960s
The Houston Cougars will debut new uniforms tonight, a tribute to the legendary teams of the late 1960s. Here we feature some of those...
Basketball
Guy V. Lewis stories on his 99th birthday
Coach Guy V. Lewis would have turned 99 today. The Hall of Fame coach that won 592 games and went to five Final Fours...
Basketball
Guy V. Lewis Was Undefeated On His Birthday
Today would have been Guy V. Lewis' 99th birthday. The father of Cougar basketball, college basketball on national television, playing in domed stadiums, and...
Cougar History
OTD: Coogs Upset #3 Kansas In Sweet 16
On this day in 1967, Houston beat third-ranked Kansas, 66-53, at historic Allen Fieldhouse in the Midwest Regional Semifinal. The win pushed the Cougars...
Must Read
Film Study
Cougars struggle to get it together in AAC Championship
Just some random thoughts from the Cincinnati game:
In the championship game era, the Cougars have gone 8-0 in the conference twice (C-USA 2011,...
Film Study
Film study: Coogs have to overcome two shutdown corners
Friday, we wrote about Cincinnati's imposing DL https://gocoogs.com/cincinnati-dl/
Much like Houston, Cincinnati's defense goes through the linebackers. Dana Holgorsen said this week that both teams have...
Film Study
Film study: Cincinnati’s defensive linemen are no joke
Houston and Cincinnati both play elite defense. On Thursday in an interview on ESPNU Radio, Dana Holgorsen said both teams are similar in many...
Cougar History
1989 box scores and Andre Ware’s season stats
These are newspaper box scores, individual stats, and specifically, Andre Ware's stats and NCAA records from the University of Houston's 1989 football season. Andre...
Cougar History
Andre Ware wins the Heisman Trophy
See every box score and game-by-game stats from Andre Ware's 1989 Heisman Trophy winning season.
Today in 1989, the University of Houston's Andre Ware...