Houston Cougars' Challenging Path to NCAA Final Four

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00:00We head out to the midwest where the number one team in this portion of the bracket

00:04The two tirading big 12 champions the houston cougars last year not a conference tournament title

00:10But this year in kansas city both an outright regular season crown and a conference tourney title as well for kelvin samson

00:18And his coogs what a turnaround kelvin samson has had for this team in h-town seventh consecutive

00:24Ncaa tournament appearance each of the last five big dances drx

00:28Houston has at least seen the second weekend in a sweet 16

00:32Appearance they are the one seed but they have the worst price of any one seed to win a national championship

00:38Also the longest number for any one seed to even win their region at a plus 140 price

00:43The two is tennessee at plus 370 second best number. That shouldn't be overly surprising

00:49It's that eight seed in the gonzaga bulldogs at a plus 850 number

00:54The eighth seed has the third best place to reach the final four

00:58It's because the metrics look a lot kinder to the zags than that of the committee's placement on that seed line

01:04Gonzaga ninth in the net eighth in kenpom third best number to reach the final four out of the midwest

01:10The tough part about this for houston should they get to the final four?

01:13Sure, you take a look at the odds market says they're supposed to get there

01:15But also understanding

01:17You get the layup in the first round as the one seed and then it just turns in the turmoil for that for houston

01:22Afterwards because whether or not you get georgia, which has been pointed out already. Oh, yeah, they're a big win of the year

01:27They are they beat florida who might be the best team overall in the tournament in round number two

01:30And if it's not them

01:31It's going to be the gonzaga bulldogs who are battle-tested been to the tournament not surprised by the bright lights and probably saying to

01:37Yourself, you know what?

01:39We don't have all of the oh, we're a one seed or a two seed now

01:42We have to live up to the outcome of that. No, you don't now

01:44You're right where you're seated where most people thought you always should have been seated

01:47And let's just see if you can make a run and if you do get past that

01:50And maybe a mcneese gets on a run you have purdue which has one of the best guards in the country that you have to

01:54face before you even get to

01:56Tennessee and the elite eight for houston. This is the team that I picked out that said if they are going to earn

02:02A final four trip. Yeah, they are going to earn a fire final four tribute