Houston basketball coach Kelvin Sampson held a press conference earlier on Thursday in advance of the Cougars’ Big 12 Conference game Saturday at Kansas State.

UH Men's Basketball team hosted its first conference game of the season, ending like most games at the Fertitta Center-with a win, holding the longest current home-winning streak in the country.

The Cowboys finish out a two-game tour of the Wasatch Front on Tuesday night against BYU Cougars inside the Marriott Center (8 p.m. CT, ESPN+).

With two games per week and several Saturday-Monday turnarounds, UH faces a busy stretch of the Big 12 basketball season.

Coach Kevin Young's Cougars rolled into Houston feeling good about themselves and their 10 wins, but 40 minutes of disastrous play changed that.

J'Wan Roberts hit the go-ahead bucket with 1.1 seconds left in regulation, leading Houston to its 10th consecutive victory.

The Cougars have won their last nine head-to-head meetings with UCF and are 20-3 in Big 12 regular-season conference games.

Once again this week, it’s a three-way tie for the lead atop the Big 12 Conference basketball standings. And while the top three in this week’s power rankings remain the same from the week before, there was quite a bit of movement from fourth on down to the very bottom.

While West Virginia (12-3, 3-1) fell out of The Associated Press’ Top 25 after splitting a pair of games last week, the Mountaineers are slotted at No. 25 in the Coaches Poll. The Cougars, winners of eight straight, are No. 8 in the same poll and unbeaten in nine home games.

The Kansas State men are coming off a bad 13-point loss at Oklahoma State by 13 on Tuesday night and have now lost four of their last five games.

Houston got its seventh straight win and its 31st consecutive victory at the Fertitta Center on Monday. Although early on in the second half, it wasn’t easy as

No. 14 Houston had thrashed a series of overmatched nonconference opponents before opening the Big 12 slate with a thorough drubbing of Oklahoma State on the road last week. With