Houston Cougars Dominate Kansas: Big 12 Matchup Highlights

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00:00The Cougars have been fantastic in college basketball the last few years. 8-0 in the

00:03conference. They get that big win on Saturday night against Kansas and you talk about signature

00:07wins. I mean Bill Self essentially never loses at home once they're leading at halftime and they

00:12were in this one and Houston comes back and wins. They're just a heavy favorite to win the Big 12 at

00:17this point. Kansas has fallen back quite a bit. It's interesting Houston has not been able to

00:23be successful this year. They've had limited exposure to the best teams. They lost a few of

00:27them early. Great Auburn game they played. Just couldn't get over the finish line against the

00:33Tigers and then they play at Kansas and Kansas basically handed it to them with two really

00:40poorly executed inbounds plays from the baseline. Otherwise KU gets out with a win against one of

00:47the better teams in the country and stays healthy in the conference race. Now it's going to be very

00:53difficult for them to catch Houston. They'll still think Iowa State and Arizona are in the picture

00:58but it's going to be tough for anybody to track down Houston now. Yeah I think so and you take

01:03a look real quick let's go back and look at their odds to win the conference in the Big 12

01:08and Houston's just off to this incredible start and I mean is there any value at all Mike? You

01:14think you know grabbing an Iowa State or as you said maybe Arizona now goes on this run?

01:18Yeah I think Iowa State's still in that picture because they're very difficult to beat at home.

01:24They have an outstanding team. You saw how good they were up until that missed free throw

01:28on Monday night late or early Tuesday morning. You saw how good they can be so I think that there

01:35might be something to that but it will be difficult because Houston has had a lot of scheduling

01:40advantage to date. I think it'll get much more difficult for them in February. Usually the best

01:46TV games are held until February and I could see where you'd want Houston on television because

01:53since Kelvin got it going, Kelvin Sampson got it going at Houston, they've been terrific every year.