Houston Cougars: A Final Four Favorite After Big 12 Dominance

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00:00if I put you on the spot right now having studied the field of 68 and as we go through all of this

00:06madness and I asked you for one team on this list that you feel near a hundred percent confident

00:12is in San Antonio for the final four which school do you highlight the Houston Cougars I know in

00:18order to break through in sports sometimes you have to be at bat year after year and Kelvin

00:24Sampson's team has been at bat year after year three straight years as a one seed in the NCAA

00:29tournament last year went to the sweet 16 lost Jamal Shedd to an ankle injury against Duke but

00:35Kelvin Sampson has ripped through the big 12 like a chainsaw through butter in the last two years

00:40since Houston has joined the conference the Cougars are 39 and 5 against big 12 caliber

00:46opponents that's something that can't be denied when you look at the fact that Houston has went

00:52into that league which has been consistently the best league in college basketball even if it

00:57hasn't been this year it was the SEC and went 39 and 5 in two years Houston in two years has

01:03become the flagship program in the big 12 and has taken that mantle from Kansas.