WICHITA, Kan. — It must have felt like déjà vu to Houston men’s basketball coach Kelvin Sampson at Koch Arena on Thursday.
Back in the Roundhouse with a striped-out and energized Wichita State crowd and a national audience on ESPN watching, Houston’s final trip to Koch Arena before departing for the Big 12 had strikingly similar circumstances to its first trip back in 2018.
But this Houston squad is the No. 1-ranked team on KenPom.com and the NET for a reason. The Cougars showed why when they absorbed WSU’s best punch and still came out standing with a 70-61 victory on Thursday.