Many players would dream of a homecoming like the one put together by UH senior guard Jamal Shead on Monday night. An Austin-area native and the floor general of the No. 4 Houston Cougars, Shead returned home to face the Texas Longhorns in what became a hard-fought overtime battle defined largely by his unrelenting resilience on both sides of the basketball.
“When you’re in it you don’t worry about it being your hometown,” Shead said after the game. “You just try to win it for your teammates.”
The first several minutes went back and forth, with Texas opening the scoring and UH routinely answering.