They are having a fantastic season under their first year coach Todd Buchanan and after a 77-61 win over UTEP yesterday, clinched the regular season C-USA conference championship for the first time since the 2003-04 season..
That was the Cougars 13th straight win and the now 22-4 squad is only three wins away from compiling their first unbeaten C-USA conference run in their program history and only the second one in C-USA history since UTEP ran the C-USA table in 2007-08.
They have also tied their record for the longest winning streak in program history as well. .
Buchanan was an assistant coach at UH from 2000-2005 before taking the head job at crosstown Houston Baptist University. His words about yesterday's C-USA clinching victory? "Awesome," as he said to Houston Chronicle reporter Sam Khan. "That’s why I came back. I came back for a lot of reasons, but that’s one of the biggest reasons.”
There's a whiteboard in the Cougars locker room that had three goals on it.
*win conference
*go “16-0” in conference
*win conference tournament
They can check one of those goals off their whiteboard. But there's two more I'd like to see them add.
*Fill Hofheinz Pavilion consistently for women's basketball games.
*Deep run in NCAA tournament
