Day 1: Houston wins 5-4 over E. Carolina! The Cougars picked up their third win in four games against the Pirates in 2008. The Cougars also advanced in the winner's bracket where they will face the winner of the No. 1 Rice-No. 8 UAB game at 4 p.m., Thursday. Update: Houston v. UAB Thursday at 4 p.m. Day 1: Rice loses to UAB 8-2. Now they play E. Carolina on Thursday at 9 a.m.
I think Rice only lost 1 conference game all year. Then in the tournament, they lost 2 games...in a row to teams they swept during the regular season Gramps cannot be happy.
FINAL! Houston beats Alabama-Birmingham 3-1 and now advance to the C-USA title game on Sunday at 1 pm. They play the winner of S. Miss/Marshall wich is at 9 am. GO COOGS!!!!
Texas also gets some late-game heroics and help from the Ags to advance to the Big 12 championship game! They've really turned it on late in the year, especially after struggling in conference play. Maybe all that youth is coming together at the right time.
Houston finds out which regional they're going to tomorrow morning at 11:30 am on ESPN. The team is having a veiwing party at 11 am at Skeeters (Gulfgate location). Everyone is welcome. I think UH is going to either Baton Rouge (LSU), College Station ( A & M) or Houston (Rice) regional. GO COOGS!
Nice win for the Coogs. Rice didn't give a flip about the conference tourney, since they had already secured a national top 8 seed. Consider it a little charity thrown your way, coog fans. You won't be paired with the Rice regional. They don't put teams from the same conference together. Like you said, either A$M or LSU is going to be your destination
The Houston Cougars are the 2008 C-USA Champions. Thank you for the hardware we picked up in Nawlins. Good luck with your at-large bid.
or basketball. or softball. or soccer. or swimming. or track and field. when you think about it, the only thing Rice Fan has to say in the face of mediocrity is "Omaha, baby!"... and that won't fly pretty soon either.
Ummm, do a little research, brah. Rice dominates UH in most sports over the past few years. Football and basketball this past year being exceptions. Baseball is a complete route, though, you're right. 8 Silver Gloves in a row.
UH's record against Rice in the Bayou Bucket: 25-9 UH's record against Rice in the Bayou Bucket in the past few years: 7-3 including winning the last THREE games. UH's record against Rice in the Bayou Cup (basketball): 51-14, including winning both games against Rice this season. I think they split last season. UH's record against Rice in baseball: 69-76, though admittedly they've only won the Silver Glove once since it's inception in '98. Uh has absolutely dominated Rice in basketball and football in their all-time history... It's ok though, cause they're a baseball powerhouse...but let's not sugar coat their performance in other sports.
Run that analysis for sports other than football and baseball and it's pretty lopsided over the past 5-10 years....in Rice's favor
O.k....so if we aren't talking football, baseball and basketball...what are these other sports Rice is dominating? Chess isn't a sport. We talking Tennis here? Golf???? Track and Field??? Swimming and Diving??? Tiddly-Winks?? We used to have world class golf and track programs at UH...so I have trouble believing we have fallen so far as to be punked by Rice...but I guess anything is possible.
