Summer Shootaround Series: The Houston Cougars will win at least 28 games this year and could win their first national championship since the 80's (College Basketball 08/17)
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
The Houston Cougars were a decimated squad for most of least season and still made a deep run in the NCAA Tournament. With some additional health luck and a five-star freshman, could Kelvin Sampson lead Houston to its second Final Four in 3 years? Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander discuss.
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| 0:00.0 | And there's Gary Parrish. Welcome back to the CBS Sports Ion College basketball |
| 0:05.4 | podcast where we sometimes discuss Kamel fighting Doato birds and Leaky Black |
| 0:09.8 | Matt Norlander is here with me. If you're watching on YouTube, please smash that |
| 0:14.0 | like button like your brand of Dave's. You have consent while you're smashing. |
| 0:16.9 | Let me remind you what we've got going on over a 10 week span called the summer |
| 0:20.1 | shoot around the series during which we'll focus on 20 notable teams |
| 0:24.1 | over span of 10 weeks, two per week, 20 teams in 10 weeks and we're doing the |
| 0:27.6 | schools in alphabetical order. We've already knocked out Alabama, Arizona, |
| 0:31.5 | Arkansas, Auburn, Baylor, Crater and Duke, Gonzaga. Now we turn our attention to |
| 0:36.0 | Houston. The Cougars went 32 and six last season. |
| 0:40.1 | One, the AAC regular season title and the AAC tournament got a five seed in the |
| 0:44.1 | NCAA tournament made it to the Elite 8, lost a villain over there. From that |
| 0:48.0 | team, Houston, Laws, Fabian, White, Josh Carlton, Kyler, Edwards, Taze, more. |
| 0:52.4 | So for the top five scores, but the Cougars are bringing back |
| 0:55.6 | Marcus Sasser, Traymond Mark, Jamal Shed, Reggie Cheney. So that's |
| 0:59.9 | four the top eight though. It's worth noting Sasser and Mark didn't finish |
| 1:04.7 | last season because of injuries that they're also adding Houston is a five-star |
| 1:09.2 | forward, Jaris Walker. I've got the Cougars ranked third |
| 1:13.2 | in the CBS Sports Top 25 and one. We'll see what Deadleg thanks to Calvin |
| 1:17.3 | Samson's Cougars in a moment. But first, a word for our sponsors. |
| 1:22.5 | All right, Deadleg. I've got Houston ranked third in the top 25 and one. Can you |
| 1:25.7 | get that high with me? I might be able to get that high with you. Houston's |
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