'25 Summer Shootaround: The Houston Cougars remain elite heading into the 25-26 CBB season

Eye On College Basketball

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🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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The Houston Cougars suffered utter heartbreak in the National Championship game last April. The team will be a bit younger this year, adding a five-star freshman to the starting lineup, and with Milos Uzan returning, the sky is the limit for the Cougars. But can they avenge that heartbreak next season, Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander discuss the 2025-2026 Houston Cougars in the 2nd episode of the 2025 Summer Shootaround. 00:00 - Start 02:08 - Love it or Loathe It, Houston is the 2nd best team in the nation. 17:24 - Additional musings 19:46 - Houston's Non-Con Schedule 20:47 - Houston's Big 12 Schedule 21:57 - Houston's regular season win predictions. 🎵 Theme song: "Timothy Leary," written, performed and courtesy of Guster Eye on College Basketball is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Follow our team: @EyeonCBBPodcast @GaryParrishCBS @MattNorlander @Kyle_Boone @DavidWCobb @NataTheScribe Visit the betting arena on CBSSports.com for all the latest in sportsbook reviews and sportsbook promos for betting on college basketball. You can listen to us on your smart speakers! Simply say, "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Eye on College Basketball podcast," or "Hey, Google, play the latest episode of the Eye on College Basketball podcast." Email the show for any reason whatsoever: [email protected] Visit Eye on College Basketball's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeFb_xyBgOekQPZYC7Ijilw For more college hoops coverage, visit https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Now streaming.
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0:07.0	Their bodies are the scene of the crime.
0:09.0	Their symptoms in history are clues.
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0:15.0	I kinda love it if I'm being honest.
0:17.0	Solve the puzzle. Save the patient.
0:20.0	Watson. All episodes, now streaming on TV. be an honest. Solve the puzzle. Save the patient.
0:21.4	Watson.
0:24.2	All episodes now streaming on Paramount Plus. Hey there, Gary Parrish, welcome back to the CBS Sports Eye on College basketball
0:48.3	podcast where we sometimes discuss camel fighting dodo birds, leaky black.
0:52.6	Matt Norlander is here with me.
0:53.9	If you're watching on YouTube, you know what to do to that like button. Shouts to Brandon Davies. And if you haven't yet, subscribe to the CBS Sports College Basketball YouTube channel, please also do that while you're here. Let's get into it. Today we are continuing our summer shoot-round series that we're going to be doing over the span of a few weeks. We've already published an episode on St. Johns, the team I've got number one in the top
1:15.6	25 and 1. Now we're turning our attention to the team that I have number two in the top 25 and 1,
1:20.7	and that is the University of Houston. The Cougars went 35 and 5 last season, including
1:26.3	19 and 1 in the Big 12,
1:29.0	won the league title outright by four games, beat Colorado, BYU, and Arizona to win the
1:34.9	Big 12 tournament, then got a one seed in the NCAA tournament, and then they beat S-I-U-E,
1:41.6	Gonzaga, Purdue, Tennessee, and Duke to advance to the title game where the Cougars lost
1:46.1	Florida, 65, 63 after leading by as many as 12 points with less than 16 minutes left in
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