Just three days after playing 45 minutes in Kansas’ 92-86 double-overtime loss to Houston, Hunter Dickinson will be back in Allen Fieldhouse on Tuesday night for a Big 12 battle against UCF, a team that will have revenge on its mind after losing to KU by 51 points on Jan.

Houston picked up a two-game road sweep in Big 12 Conference play at a pair of the league’s more imposing venues. As a result, the Cougars maintain their hold o

Although Kansas basketball suffered a loss Saturday against Houston, what Jayhawks freshman Flory Bidunga accomplished didn’t go unnoticed.

Houston coach Kelvin Sampson, in praising his team’s maturity after it beat Kansas at Allen Fieldhouse on Saturday night, uttered one of his typical aphorisms: “There’s a 94-foot slab of rectangular wood we play on.

The Houston Cougars are one of the hottest teams in college basketball — and they finally picked up a signature victory. Houston (16-3, 8-0) came into Saturday'

Mayo committed two vital turnovers on inbounds passes off Houston’s full-court press. KU was up two points with 16.6 left in regulation when he was called for a five-second inbounds violation. Two free throws by J’Wan Robert tied it at 66 with 13.9 seconds left. KU turned it over on the Jayhawks’ final possession of regulation.

The loss was as unlikely as they come. KenPom’s data gave Kansas a 99.6% win expectancy when the Jayhawks had the ball up six with 18 seconds to play — what followed instead were missed free throws, a Houston 3-pointer, then a stolen inbounds pass and another 3-pointer.

KU’s Hunter Dickinson and TCU’s Trazarien White were both tagged with technical fouls for refusing to release the basketball after a hard-fought rebounding battle on Wednesday.

Disaster struck twice for Kansas on Saturday night. Once in regulation and once in the first overtime period, the Jayhawks held six-point leads late against higher-ranked Houston. In the second half,

J'Wan Roberts had 24 points, nine rebounds and five assists to help No. 7 Houston rally to a dramatic 92-86 double-overtime victory over No. 12 Kansas on

Sure, the win at Kansas is really the only marquee victory Houston has so far this season, but a 13-game winning streak with 11 double-digit wins over that stretch earns Kelvin Sampson's team a place in the top tier of the sport.