you don’t take it for granted but its easy to lose sight of it when we’ve been going into selection sunday pushing 30 wins ever since 21-22 lol
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They had the Rockets game at 8… just very poor scheduling starting at 6 with a Rockets home game at 8 the same night.
It’s already hard enough for fans to make it there at 6 and then you’re up against the Celtics vs Rockets game, too…
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20 wins is just a good season, the coogs have moved far past that. if you have to appreciate 20 wins, you are a good conference team but not a good tournament team.
dont kid yourself, the years will come when the coogs are just a good team; cougar basketball is not a blue blood; but that maybe 5 or more years away from now.
I’ve lived through UH basketball’s highs, from the late 1960s to the 1980s, and lows, 1990s until Sampson. Some of those years were worse than others. For me, experiencing the successes UH had, and then see it fall apart, you never take for granted a 20 win season. Especially nowadays, with the competition being so good.
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Seems like 20 wins by Feb 1st the expectation now.
Loco as that sounds…
Jet Set team brings Jet Set expectations.
Been a golden age of UH Men’s hoop &
it’s just getting better and better.
Two??? How about 4 !
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I admit that my seats were empty last night. My wife is in Kansas but I was coming. I was dressed and walking out the door but I felt a recurring medical issue coming on. I just could not take the chance. Sorry.
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I know this makes some of you uncomfortable but it wouldn’t be Coogfans if we didn’t post this here. I hope is him wanting a bigger nil budget & getting it.
It’s all about perspective. Sure winning 20 games is nice, but with talent they have would we be “appreciating” the accomplishment if they wound up being 20-10? Especially with the remaining starters and three 5* freshmen? Compared to where things were of course it’s great to be winning at this level, but having been a fan and an alum going back the Big E days I’ll never take ANY of it for granted. We have the longest active streak of being ranked in the top 25, we’ve won more games then any other school over the past 5-6 yrs, and have been a legitimate final four contender as well. The word grateful comes to mind. To Sampson and his entire staff.
you don’t get lottery level talent to flock here without a solid budget but im guessing its nowhere close to the “f you” money tech or byu has lol
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I’d say yes — a 25 win season is roughly comparable to 20 wins back in the 60s & 70s.
I recall the discussion in the 70s about 20-win seasons often concerned NCAA Tournament-worthiness. Back then, only 32 teams got in and there were no pre-season tournaments.
Grok — Back in the sixties and seventies, teams typically played around twenty-four to twenty-seven games total—regular season plus any postseason. For example, John Wooden’s UCLA powerhouses in that era often hit twenty-eight to thirty games and still dominated with twenty-plus wins, meaning seventy-five to eighty percent win rates for the elite ones.
Today in the two thousand twenty-fives and twenty-sixes, squads play thirty to thirty-three games on average, sometimes pushing thirty-five with conference tournaments and early postseason. So to match that seventy to eighty percent winning clip for a truly elite mark—think national title contender or top-five team—you’re looking at twenty-five to twenty-eight wins in the regular season, or twenty-seven to thirty overall.
Hitting twenty-five wins now is roughly like twenty wins was back then: it signals a very strong, likely top-tier program, especially if the schedule’s tough. Thirty wins? That’s the modern dynasty territory, like what Gonzaga or Duke chase in peak years.
The extra games make it easier to rack up totals, but the percentage still separates the great from the good. So yeah, twenty-five regular-season wins is the comparable benchmark for that old-school elite feel.
We won 20 or more three times under Penders in 6 years and didn’t make the NCAA tournament. We only won 19 the year we did. Only once under Dickey did we reach 20. We never reached 20 wins under McCallum, Clyde, or Brooks. So, you bet I appreciate it.
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Add to the fact that CKS and staff are doing all this with great kids. No knuckleheads, and they graduate. I have said it before, but considering our resources, the chances of us ever having a run like this are slim to none. We certainly should be able to be a very good team with the right coaches (now that we have the infrastructure) but 7 S16 in a row, 1 seed year after year, back to back Big12 champs… That is rarified air, top 0.01% stuff.
Anyone who is taking this for granted will be kicking themselves one day.
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Incorrect. Penders’ team won the CUSA Tournament in 2010 and were an automatic NCAA Tournament bid.
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I do believe that was a problem Nunez was hired to help fix, thus the Group 1 deal, and other similar deals. I know they announced one recently related to the indoor track facility too.
You are correct, I apologize. I didn’t word that first sentence very well, assuming most would see the second sentence and understand the context. In the future I make a greater effort to be clear and precise.
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Are we getting the full Big 12 TV revenue share now.
This summer we get our first full year’s share
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I assume even with the full share, we might still be the smallest budget.
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I remember where this program started under Sampson, so I will always appreciate a 20 win season.
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