Monday, February 21, 2011

Congrats UH Cougar Women Ballers 2010-11 C-USA Champs!

Had to give the University of Houston's women's basketball team a little TransGriot love today.   

They are having a fantastic season under their first year coach Todd Buchanan and after a 77-61 win over UTEP yesterday, clinched the regular season C-USA conference championship for the first time since the 2003-04 season..

That was the Cougars 13th straight win and the now 22-4 squad is only three wins away from compiling their first unbeaten C-USA conference run in their program history and only the second one in C-USA history since UTEP ran the C-USA table in 2007-08.

They have also tied their record for the longest winning streak in program history as well. .

Buchanan was an assistant coach at UH from 2000-2005 before taking the head job at crosstown Houston Baptist University.   His words about yesterday's C-USA clinching victory?  "Awesome," as he said to Houston Chronicle reporter Sam Khan. "That’s why I came back. I came back for a lot of reasons, but that’s one of the biggest reasons.”  

There's a whiteboard in the Cougars locker room that had three goals on it.   

*win conference
*go “16-0” in conference
*win conference tournament

They can check one of those goals off their whiteboard.    But there's two more I'd like to see them add.  

*Fill Hofheinz Pavilion consistently for women's basketball games. 

*Deep run in NCAA tournament

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