This is an episode where we can dispense with the usual preamble as HOUSTON COUGAR MEN'S BASKETBALL IS GOING TO THE FINAL FOUR... thanks to wins over Purdue and Tennessee, which Bobby and Sam talked about in this here pawdcast.

Bobby and Sam are back to discuss what is certainly the highest profile Houston Cougar news of the week that was, plus everything else current in the world of UH sports, including the following topics:

• Previewing the Coogs' Sweet 16 men's basketball opponent, the Purdue Boilermakers, what they're good and areas where the Coogs can take advantage
• A historic performance at the NCAA Swim & Dive championships
• Baseball has us feeling sort of optimistic (?) again
• Track & Field opens Outdoor season at home
• A mostly positive Cougar Golf Corner, featuring both the men's and women's teams

The boys are back (the boys are back) approximately 18 hours after the Houston Cougars punched their 6th straight ticket to at least the Sweet 16 of the NCAA men's basketball tournament. Talking takeaways and best moments from Saturday night's win over Gonzaga and finding time to recap a comprehensive thrashing of SIUE in the round of 64 on Thursday.

The boys are back... with some slightly more marinated thoughts about the Houston Cougars' opening round NCAA men's basketball tournament opponent, included among the following topics:

• Preview the SIUE Cougars with help from beat writer Matthew Kamp and additional thoughts from the guys
• Looking at a future, potential round of 32 match up in UH's future
• Recapping the Cougar performances from the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships
• A triumphant Cougar golf corner with our best men's result from the current season
• A much less triumphant return to talking Cougar baseball after getting decisively swept at home by Texas Tech on opening weekend

The boys are back on the joyous occasion of the 2025 NCAA Tournament bracket reveal, with the Cougars getting a 1 seed for the 3rd straight season and thoughts about the remaining teams in the Coogs' part of the bracket, including a possible heartburn inducing 8-seed lurking.

A little taste of what the wonderful people who financially support the work that Bobby and Sam do on a weekly basis get for their support and in this case that's a meaty full Big 12 men's basketball preview, featuring the guys' thoughts and 7 different school-specific experts to talk about the teams in and around the NCAA Tournament, without getting bogged down in the usual bracket minutiae.

Bobby and Sam return for a hoops-heavy, but not hoops-exclusive episode here in mid-March with the following Houston Cougar sports topics on offer:

• Recapping a men's hoops regular season finale win over Baylor, LJ Cryer's phenomenal performance, and Bobby's in person experience in Waco
• Thoughts before the Big 12 men's hoops tournament & what the guys would like to see from the Coogs in KC
• UH and former WBB head coach Ron Hughey part ways, where UH should look next and bigger picture program questions
• A quick look at the UH athletes representing at the NCAA Indoor Track & Field and Swimming & Diving championships
• Bonus baseball & women's golf thoughts

In what may be the most jam-packed episode of the 10th season of this pawd, Bobby and Sam move as efficiently as possible through a mostly very positive week that was:

• Men's Hoops grabs a 2nd straight un-shared Big 12 championship via wins over Cincy and Kansas, plus previewing a late Saturday night regular season finale at Baylor
• Swimming & Diving's 3rd place finish @ Big 12 championships in Washington. Talking standout performances and big picture thoughts, as this program's ridiculous consistency continues
• Talking Big 12 Indoor Track & Field championships, featuring a 5th place men's finish, several individual titles and numerous standout performances (plus a surprise appearance from Shaun Maswanganyi)
• Women's Hoops mercifully sees the 2024-25 season end, with a program coaching change looking imminent
• Baseball still has us actually feeling mostly positive, plus Bobby talks about his in person experience at the weekend series in Arlington
• Somewhat humbling Tennis and Golf Corner results to discuss

The regular hosting duo of Bobby and Sam return to discuss the following Houston Cougar sports topics from the week that was and will be, in the following order:

• Men's hoops gets a pair of top 10 Big 12 wins: defeating Iowa St and avenging the earlier loss to Texas Tech in Lubbock, clinching at least a share of the Big 12 title in the 2nd game. Recapping those games and giving big picture thoughts after yet another conference title in the Kelvin Sampson era
• Previewing the men's hoops opponents for the coming week: home games against Cincy and Kansas, which will wrap the season slate at the Fertitta Center
• Quick preview of the Big 12 Indoor Track & Field championships
• Baseball wins its 2nd weekend series in a row, this time at Cal, and the hosts are feeling optimistic?!?!
• Tennis corner returns! Recapping a nailbiter loss at UTSA to close non-conference and previewing the opening Big 12 weekend's roadies at OK State and K State
• Golf corner returns! Both the women's and men's golf teams returned to action at different Lone Star state events

The boys are back, Bobby and Sam have the enviable task of discussing a delightful week that will be from the world of Houston Cougar sports:

• Men's Hoops notches another road top 25 Big 12 win, knocking off the Arizona Wildcats in Tucson with a season defining performance from Milos Uzan and the boys do some time travel to talk about a Tuesday night, drama free win over Arizona State
• Previewing the top 10 Men's Hoops matchups to come w/Iowa St and Texas Tech
• Learning about new soccer head coach Ben Williams
• Previewing swimming & diving's Big 12 championship meet next week
• Thoughts after baseball's positive, but not decisive opening series win over Minnesota & road trip to the Bay Area

Another week, another opportunity to dive into a heaping helping of Houston Cougar sports happenings:

• Men's Hoops trudges through a road win at lowly Colorado, but leaves no doubt in Baylor's first Big 12 MBB trip to the Fertitta Center
• Previewing a massive Saturday game at a top 25 Arizona team w/1st place in the Big 12 stakes & a slightly less massive midweeker at Arizona St
• A departure & arrival on the football coaching staff
• Previewing the 2025 Cougar baseball season
• Tennis Corner off a tough, but encouraging loss in Dallas that Bobby watched in person

The boys are back in town (even though Bobby is recording from out of town) with a MEATY, 90+ minute episode filled with Houston Cougar sports happenings to talk about:

• Cougar men's basketball's jam packed 3-game week, with a super close OT loss to Texas Tech sandwiched in between workmanlike wins over WVU and OK State. Previewing Colorado and Baylor in the week to come
• '25 football schedule talk & one co-host has issues with the lack of a schedule release
• Catching up with Track's indoor season and the past couple of meets
• Women's golf has their spring debut & previewing the '25 spring season for men's golf
• A TRIUMPHANT Cougar Tennis corner off a 3-0 start to the season

The regular co-hosting duo is back, with Bobby back on terra firma in Texas, with the boys discussing the following Houston Cougar topics:

• An unbelievable win at Kansas by Cougar men's basketball, with big performances from Mylik Wilson and J'Wan Roberts, among others
• Previewing 2 challenging upcoming MBB conference games, at WVU and hosting Texas Tech
• Soccer HC Jaime Frias steps down, unpacking the last 3 seasons & where UH could look next
• Women's Golf HC Lydia Lasprilla joins the Pawd and afterwards we preview the '25 spring season
• Our first Cougar Tennis corner of the '25 spring season! Talking the first win of the Kat Adamovic era & 2 upcoming non-conference matches

For all listeners of the Scott & Holman Pawdcast, a free-mium 15-16ish minutes clipped from our regular Patreon feed instant react episode to Cougar men's basketball winning a 92-86 double OT classic at Phog Allen Fieldhouse.

With Bobby off at the PGA Show in Florida, it was a return of the OG co-host lineup as Dustin tagged in to discuss the following Houston Cougar sports topics:

• A busy 3-0 week for Cougar men's hoops with wins that ranged from the the extremely dramatic (UCF) to the somewhat dramatic (WVU) to laughably uncompetitive (Utah), with a big roadie to Kansas coming this weekend
• Women's hoops snags a top 25 win over Oklahoma State, but after blowout losses to Baylor and Texas Tech we still have some of the same questions
• Quick Tennis and Swim & Dive updates

The boys are back in tooooooooown, the boys are back (whispers the boys are back), and with a heaping helping of Houston Cougar sports stuff to discuss:

• Cougar men's hoops thrashes K State 87-57 on the road & looks ahead to challenging Big 12 opponents West Virginia and UCF
• The portal stops for no program and UH adds a couple of transfer defensive backs and we bid a fond farewell to Hershey McLaurin
• Tennis head coach Kat Adamovic joins the pawd for a 2nd time, discussing the fall that was and looking ahead to a new era for the program
• Track & Field kicks off the indoor season in style at the Leonard Hilton Memorial Invitational
• Swim & Dive start 2025 with an emphatic dual meet win over a Big 12 opponent

Back to the regular 2 co-hosts, this humble University of Houston sports-focused podcast returns to discuss the following UH sports topics of note:

• Recapping men's hoops' dominant 2-0 mini homestand w/victories over BYU and TCU, with a road trip to Kansas State on the horizon
• Women's hoops trudges through an 0-3 start to conference play and the boys try and assess what's wrong
• 3 intriguing late winter window football transfer adds
• Quick notations of immediately upcoming events for: Track & Field, Swim & Dive, and Tennis.

The co-hosts (wonder if that includes a special guest one) return for the first time in 2025 to discuss the following Houston Cougar and tangentially related topics:

• Recapping smothering defense & questionable offense from Cougar men's hoops' Big 12 opening win over Oklahoma State
• Special guest co-host Dustin talks about what he's seen from the partial men's hoops season to date
• Previewing BYU and TCU MBB
• More football portal talk, post winter window closing thoughts
• Dustin's wishlist for all of UH athletics in the year 2025

In the last episode before the Christmas holiday and 2nd to last of the calendar year, Bobby and Sam kick around the following Houston Cougar sports topics:

• Getting to know new Cougar football defensive coordinator Austin Armstrong
• Talking the official add of former A&M QB Conner Weigman & a number of other notable transfer pickups for Cougar football (and one BIG return to the roster)
• 2 pre-holiday buy games for Cougar men's hoops & what we can glean from these 2 contests
• Women's Hoops ending non conference on a high note & starting Big 12 play this weekend
• Tennis' 2025 schedule & a great final fall ranking for Santa Strombacha
• Some women's golfers competing at Euorpean Q School
• Sam's punishment for losing 2024 "Down with the Pickness"

Bobby and Sam return to discuss the following topics from the last week or two in the world of Houston Cougar sports:

• Men's Hoops showing a lot of really encouraging stuff, including a record setting defensive half, in wins over Butler and Troy
• Chris Cenac Jr becoming the latest blue chip recruit to join the men's hoops 2025 class
• Shiel Wood departs to become Texas Tech's defensive coordinator (candidates we like for the opening) & getting to know new UH offensive coordinator Slade Nagle
• Football portal departures & the impending arrival (later confirmed) of former blue chip QB Conner Weigman
• A positive end to the '24 volleyball season & early offseason thoughts
• Still short on positives for women's hoops, even in a week w/some positives

Is it already December?! Bobby and Sam return off of Thanksgiving week to discuss the following Houston Cougar sports topics:

• The dismissal of former UH football OC Kevin Barbay, why it happened and where Willie Fritz may be looking next for the replacement
• An encouraging, but still flawed performance to end the 2024 football season at BYU
• Men's Hoops' tough week in Vegas at the Players Era Event
• And a week that truly might represent "rock bottom" for Women's Hoops

A little early release, pre-Thanksgiving breaking news as Bobby discusses UH dismissing football offensive coordinator Kevin Barbay and possible replacements for the position.

Bobby and Sam have both the unenviable and enviable task of discussing the following topics on this week's pawdcast (w/time stamps included):

• 1:49- Thanksgiving food talk
• 6:33- Recapping football vs. Baylor
• 44:28- Previewing football @ BYU
• 57:08- Recapping MBB vs. Hofstra
• 1:06:44- Previewing MBB @ the Players Era Festival in Las Vegas
• 1:14:28- Volleyball's week that was/will be

The boys are back with not all bad news in the world of Houston Cougar sports on the menu for discussion, but it certainly isn't all good news either here in mid-November. See below for the time stamped breakdown of this week pawd:

3:30- Blue chip 2025 point guard Kingston Flemings commits to men's hoops

9:34- UL-Lafeyette recap/Hofstra preview

25:21- Arizona recap

56:25- Baylor preview

1:05:29- Volleyball

1:10:27- Women's hoops

The boys return about 24 hours earlier for the usual weekly, heaping helping of Houston Cougar pawdcast goodness, talking about all of the following sports topics of recent relevance:

• Men's Hoops learns some tough lessons & still shows some encouraging signs from a marquee match-up and close loss to the #11 Auburn Tigers
• Previewing a potential statement game for football on the road at Arizona, with the Coogs' looking to stay on schedule for bowl eligibility
• Volleyball has extreme highs and lows over 2 Big 12 matches in the last week
• Women's basketball continues to find a Laila Blair-less early season schedule difficult
• Our longest ever Tennis corner: recapping 2 different events the Coogs competed at, with officiating critiques and some positive notes to end the fall season on