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‘We’re coming for the dub’ | Houston teams take on March Madness
March Insanity is right here, and when you’re a basketball fan in Houston, prepare as a result of each Texas Southern College and the College of Houston are within the tourney.
HOUSTON, Texas — March Insanity is right here, and when you’re a basketball fan in Houston, prepare! Each the Texas Southern College Tigers and the College of Houston Cougars are in The Huge Dance.
March Insanity: These Texas groups are headed to the NCAA males’s basketball match
As a sports activities bar on the UH campus, it is no shock The Den can get busy, particularly on recreation day, like final 12 months, when the Cougars made it to the Remaining 4.
“It was standing room solely in right here. All people going loopy. Loopy excited,” proprietor Ben Pannell mentioned.
Pannell is aware of the match means packed events as soon as once more.
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“Most likely double what we might have on a traditional night time. Individuals are going to should get right here early to get a seat, in any other case, it’ll be standing room solely,” Pannell mentioned.
And contained in the College of Houston retailer, alumni are shopping for new gear, hoping this 12 months their group will go all the way in which.
“Seize a couple of T-shirts and a hat so we will have one thing to put on through the recreation,” Steven Williams mentioned. “Hopefully this 12 months will go simply pretty much as good. The group can preserve pushing and preserve pushing and get a couple of wins, and all we received to do is get sizzling on the proper time.”
However competitors is nearer than you’d suppose. Only a mile away, Texas Southern Tigers are on the prowl for his or her spot on the high.
“Oh, we’re doing our factor. We’re coming for each spot, each group, each HBCU. Any faculty, we’re coming for the dub,” TSU Freshman Keasha McCants mentioned. “We are going to take all the eye we will get as a result of it is plenty of nice stuff occurring on campus that I really feel like folks ought to be capable of see. And with the eye that we now have right here now, it’ll get the highlight on each side of TSU and what we now have to supply everyone.”
TSU performs Tuesday towards Texas A&M Corpus Christi as a part of the First 4. UH has their first recreation on Friday.
Come cheer on the Houston Cougars males’s basketball group this Friday as they tackle the College of Alabama at Birmingham Blazers. Be a part of KHOU 11 Information at Avenida Houston for the Coogs official watch social gathering to kick off March Insanity. Admission to the watch social gathering is free and tickets for the occasion might be claimed on the Houston Cougars web site.
The watch social gathering will function the Spirit of Houston Band, hosts from KHOU 11, a DJ, video games, giveaways, nice prizes, and most significantly, a good larger TV than earlier years to look at the sport.
Tipoff for Friday’s recreation towards UAB is at 8:20 p.m. with doorways for the watch social gathering opening at 6:50 p.m.
