The Daily Cougar · Mar 4, 2022
Cutting nets has become tradition for the UH men’s basketball program
Kelvin Sampson cut down yet another net as the UH basketball head coach. | Armando Yanez/The CougarBefore Kelvin Sampson arrived at Houston in 2014, the idea of the University’s men’s basketball team cutting down nets was unfathomable. Now, a short, 10-foot climb up a ladder to cut off a piece of the net has been an annual event for UH players, coaches and everyone else involved in the men’s basketball program.
On Tuesday night, the Cougars clinched their third American Athletic Conference regular season championship in four years, but the real party happened Thursday after blowing out Temple.