Basketball Rivalry

Just curious, who would you consider our basketball rivalry.

Kansas and Iowa State would be good choices but we just started playing them.

Tech and Baylor we have history with. I sorta dislike both of them but I don’t hate either of them. Well maybe Baylor

Texas won’t play us.

A&M could be a great rivalry if we played every year. Buzz v Sampson.

I miss playing Arkansas.

I don’t know that we have a rival.

Do we need one? Do you want one?

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Honestly, it might be because of my age but I really hate Memphis.

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Memphis if we’re talking the last twenty years. If we’re looking to the future, probably Tech and Baylor.

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Would you want to play Memphis every year ala Louisville v Kentucky?

I probably wouldn’t want to do it in perpetuity but I wouldn’t mind getting them on the schedule for an extended H&H (like a 4 year deal).

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I would say Arkansas, if it hadn’t been so long since we were playing them. Only all of the old timers could possibly know how intense that rivalry was.
I believe it will become Texas Tech.

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The rest of the Big 12…

HOUSTON vs. EVERYBODY!!!

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The wildest basketball one we had when I was a student was Arkansas. Eddie Sutton was considered Satan’s cousin.

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I think it’s Memphis and I’m both happy and sad that it’s run its course. We’ll have to go through a period of losing again to find out who really hates us the most now.

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Currently, UH has no rivals in basketball. Every team in the B12 is respectful of the others, since the B12 took out the trash called OU and UT.

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Memphis, Baylor, Cinci, Rice, A&M, TX, Bama, Kansas

No particular order

Kansas and Tech fans are plenty disrespectful, we just happen so good that they have no choice but to keep quiet atm. The minute we slip some their real colors will come out.

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I would say UCF because of NASA

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No F-that. If they wanna play us it’s at our place or they can take a hike. Home and home is for people you respect. F-those mofos.

Hate to admit it but those humps were our rivals in the AAC. Dirty ass players and worse fans. Don’t even wanna mention their name. Phuc 'em.

As far as Big 12… i dislike Arizona for some reason. Probably has to do with the mess they talked after we bounced them from the tourney a few years ago and their annoying “U of A” chant. They’ve already taken out our unofficial bro in Iowa St so for the honor of the Big 12 they MUST be defeated.

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Mudcat is awful. I want to develop a rivalry with Kansas

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I respect the hate but at the same time the closest thing we had to a notable non-conference home game this year was Butler. Scheduling Memphis would at least give our fans an interesting match up.

I think an OOC game with Gonzaga every year would be cool

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i miss hating Memphis…and SMU a bit too

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To me, a rivalry is with an opponent you either can’t stand to lose to or one that will consistently stand in your way of achieving what you want to achieve and then achieving it themselves. The only 3 teams that qualify for this are Memphis (hate to lose to them), Kansas (historical basketball overlords of the conference, we want that distinction) and Iowa St (the only real challenger we’re competing with for Big12 Basketball Overlord). No one else is a real threat to us.

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Every team wants to beat the other team. Nothing new there. That does not make a rivalry. Rivalries go deeper than that. A stolen victory in a key game, a fight and bad blood between the squads or coaches, a series of competitive games won in the last seconds. Rivalries build up over time. UH has been playing basketball in the B12 1.5 yrs. Give it time.

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