With Houston’s renewed success in basketball in recent years, the debate about whether UH is a basketball school or not has waged on.
For Jim Nantz, a UH alumnus and longtime CBS sports broadcaster who called his first Houston home game on Sunday, the answer is simple after experiencing the Fertitta Center for the first time during the No. 21 Cougars 64-57 win over the Memphis Tigers.
“If you’re coming in from the outside and see you this you say, ‘Holy smokes. That is a basketball school,'” Nantz said. “It’s got a feel like it’s a major conference.