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On Thursday, March 20, the 1-seeded Houston Cougars men’s basketball team kicked off its March Madness campaign against the 16-seeded SIU Edwardsville Cougars.
On Thursday, fans of the University of Houston men’s basketball team will get their first taste of March Madness, as the top-seeded Cougars will make their debut in the 2025 tournament with a matchup against 16-seeded SIU Edwardsville.
Ahead of the start of the 2025 NCAA baseball season, college baseball coaches were high on the Texas A&M Aggies’ chances to bring home their first championship in program history.
The attorney general is accusing the organization of misleading fans by allowing transgender college athletes in women’s sports.
State law prohibits schools from making direct name, image and likeness deals with athletes. Texas Tech says it puts them at a disadvantage as the university recruits athletes for fall 2025.
Back pain can be caused by many things, and while your suffering may be severe, simpler treatments are often overlooked. This was the case for Constance White, a college soccer player from the University of Mary Hardin in Baylor. Constance almost quit the sport she loved due to severe back pain. Then, she found a treatment at Core Chiropractic that worked, and it was surprisingly straightforward.
After news broke yesterday that then-Texas A&M head baseball coach Jim Schlossnagle had accepted an offer to become the head coach at the University of Texas, the parties wasted no time in making it official.
Justin Lamkin gave Texas A&M a second straight sensational start, Caden Sorrell homered to break open the game and the Aggies beat Florida 6-0 to reach their first College World Series finals.
The Texas A&M baseball team went into the Regional tournament with lofty expectations, entering the weekend as the No. 3 ranked team in the field of 64. It’s safe to say the Aggies delivered on expectations, as they were the only team in Texas to punch a ticket to the Super Regional tournament.
It’s not a stretch to say Shead should be high on the list of greatest athletes in Houston sports history, given the traits he has shown.
First up is a Sweet 16 matchup against Duke at roughty 8:40 p.m. Friday night, with the winner playing either Marquette or N.C. State on Sunday for the right to go to the Final Four in Arizona.
Wait, what was the score!? Yeaaaah, so Houston's College of Biblical Studies loss to Grambling by a 141-point margin on Tuesday and social media can NOT stop talking about it.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has said he would support legislation prohibiting transgender men from competing on men’s college sports teams and transgender women from joining women’s college athletic teams.
For the fourth straight season, the University of Houston Men’s Basketball Team will play in the NCAA Sweet Sixteen.
KPRC 2 Sports confirmed that John Kay is stepping down as head coach at North Shore and will begin his college coaching career at Rice University where he will be the new linebackers coach for the Owls program under Head Coach Mike Bloomgren.
Chris Beard was arrested in December for allegedly strangling his fiancee. The university fired him last month.
Beard was hired by UT in 2021. The university paid $4 million to buy out his contract at Texas Tech University. He was one of UT’s highest-paid employees.
Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale has dropped another massive bet -- but this time, on the Houston Cougars to win the NCAA tournament at 8-1, according to Caesars Sportsbook.
The University of Houston Athletics Department announced a $1 million pledge from Houston’s Board of Regents Vice Chair Jack Moore and his wife, Debbie.
Trevor Werner hit a tiebreaking single in a four-run second inning and No. 5 national seed Texas A&M broke a nine-game College World Series losing streak with a 10-2 victory over rival Texas, ending the Longhorns’ season.
Auburn University has announced the hiring of Olympic gold medalist Leroy Burrell as the Tigers' new track & field head coach after 23 years as the head coach at the University of Houston.
Ivan Melendez hit a three-run home run, Skyler Messinger went 3-for-4 with two RBIs and Texas beat ECU 11-1 to win the best-of-three Greenville Super Regional and advance to the College World Series.
Dylan Rock drove in the go-ahead run with a sacrifice fly in the top of the seventh inning and No. 5 overall seed Texas A&M beat 12th-seeded Louisville 4-3 to win the College Station Super Regional and become the first team to earn a berth in the College World Series.
Dylan Campbell drove in the winning run with a two-out bases-loaded single in the bottom of the ninth inning and No. 9 overall seed Texas overcame a five-run deficit to beat No. 8 seed East Carolina 9-8 and stay alive in the Greenville Super Regional.
Catcher Troy Claunch singled with two outs and the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth inning and No. 5 overall seed Texas A&M stranded 17 runners on base before posting a 5-4 victory over No. 12 seed Louisville in the first round of the College Station Super Regional.
Oklahoma and Texas — the two Women’s College World Series finalists — are set to join the Southeastern Conference in 2025 and likely will make the powerhouse conference even more formidable.
Kinzie Hansen and Grace Lyons hit three-run homers, Jayda Coleman made two spectacular defensive plays and No. 1 seed Oklahoma defeated unseeded Texas 10-5 to win its second straight Women’s College World Series title.
Jocelyn Alo and Tiare Jennings fueled Oklahoma’s record-setting offensive burst to help the Sooners move a victory away from successfully defending their Women’s College World Series title.
HOUSTON - Ashley Boyd beamed with pride last Thursday as she sat in the stands of USA Hall of Fame Stadium.
Matchups are set for the NCAA baseball super regionals after No. 2 national seed Stanford, No. 3 Oregon State, No. 8 East Carolina and eight other teams won regionals.
Former TCU star cornerback Jeff Gladney, a 2020 NFL Draft first-round pick who had recently signed with the Arizona Cardinals, has died in a car crash at 25 years old, as confirmed by his agent, Brian Overstreet, to multiple outlets, including the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Last week, Steve Sarkisian was in Houston for the Houston Touchdown Club Texas Longhorns Day and KPRC 2 Sports Director Randy McIlvoy went 1-on-1 with the Longhorns head coach talking about his second season coming up.
In the wake of a war of words between Texas A&M’s Jimbo Fisher and Alabama’s Nick Saban, the Southeastern Conference has issued a public reprimand to both football coaches on Thursday.
University of Texas head softball coach Mike White was thrown out of the Big 12 Championship semifinal game Friday, but it was the hand gesture he flashed on his way out that caused the biggest stir.
From the gridiron to the classroom, the Houston Texans are teaming up with Texas Southern University for a special partnership.
If NFL teams are looking for good character, it certainly appears draft prospect Isaiah Spiller has that in spades.
Former Texas Longhorn Scottie Scheffler has ascended quickly to become the top golfer in the world. On Sunday, he won his first Masters to further accentuate his spot atop the golf world.
The college basketball season just ended, but it’s never too early to dream about next season’s possibilities, especially with such a bright future expected for University of Houston men’s basketball!
After a remarkable season that resulted in a second straight Elite 8 appearance Houston Cougars’ seniors Fabian White Jr. and Taze Moore sat down with KPRC2′s Chancellor Johnson for an exclusive interview.
Dawn Staley and South Carolina buttoned up on defense and won their second national championship, stifling UConn for a 64-49 victory that ended the Huskies’ undefeated streak in title games.
Final Four weekend has finally arrived for the men and the women, and it has people talking a lot about the longtime success at UConn by Geno Auriemma and his comparisons to the “Wizard of Westwood,” the late John Wooden.
Before UH played Villanova on Saturday, KPRC 2 Sports Director Randy McIlvoy spoke with longtime UH beat writer Joseph Duarte about the keys to a Cougar victory.
From San Antonio, KPRC 2 sports director Randy McIlvoy recaps the memorable night it was for the University of Houston men's basketball team in their win over top-seeded Arizona.
Jamal Shead scored a career-high 21 points and Houston led throughout in a 72-60 victory over top-seeded Arizona on Thursday night, moving the Cougars within one win of a second straight Final Four.
Insiders, here’s your chance to win free tickets to the University of Houston's Sweet 16 game against Arizona.
As the University of Houston men's basketball team prepares for the Sweet 16, there will also be an official watch party for Cougars fans to watch the big game.
Bennedict Mathurin made a 3-pointer to force overtime and scored six more points in the extra session, and top-seeded Arizona outlasted ninth-seeded TCU 85-80 in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
Kevin McCullar made an emphatic dunk with 15 seconds left to cap a 10-1 closing run for No. 3 seed Texas Tech, which advanced to the Sweet 16 with a 59-53 victory over Notre Dame in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
RJ Davis scored a career-high 30 points and eighth-seeded North Carolina beat defending champion Baylor 93-86 in overtime in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
Andrew Jones scored 21 points, Marcus Carr beat the halftime buzzer with a shot from well beyond halfcourt to put Texas ahead for good, and the Longhorns beat Virginia Tech 81-73 for their first NCAA Tournament victory since 2014.
Remy Martin had 15 points and Christian Braun 14 to lead five players scoring in double figures for top-seeded Kansas, and the Jayhawks opened their 50th NCAA Tournament with an 83-56 victory over Texas Southern.
March Madness is off and running and already we’ve seen one of the giants go down as 2nd seeded Kentucky fell to 15th seed Saint Peter’s on Thursday. How fun is this !
Texas Southern University women's basketball head coach Cynthia Cooper-Dyke, a WNBA and Houston Comets legend, announced her retirement from coaching on Thursday.
Texas Southern defeated Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 76-67 in their NCAA First Four game, advancing to the field of 64 in NCAA Tournament action on Tuesday.
For yet another season, the University of Houston are men's basketball conference champions, earning an automatic spot into the NCAA Tournament.
Santiago Vescovi scored 17 points and Josiah-Jordan James had 16 points and 10 rebounds to help ninth-ranked Tennessee beat Texas A&M 65-50 to claim its first men’s SEC basketball tournament title in 43 years.
Terrion Murdix and Jalen Jackson each had 13 points and five assists, and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 15 years with a 73-65 victory over Southeastern Louisiana in the Southland Conference tournament championship.
John Walker III scored 12 of his 17 points in the second half and Texas Southern pulled away for an 87-62 victory over Alcorn State on Saturday in the championship game of the Southwestern Athletic Conference tournament, earning the Tigers an automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament.
Kyler Edwards had 20 points with six 3-pointers and 18th-ranked Houston advanced to its fourth consecutive American Athletic Conference championship game with an 86-66 semifinal win over Tulane.
