It started off like any other Cougar basketball game.
It began with senior center Kyle Meyer leaping into the air and tipping the jump-ball over to fellow teammates. With possession, the Cougars drove down the court, and the ball found itself in the hands of senior forward Xavier Dupree. Dupree then missed the jumper, collected his own rebound and missed again.
It was a slow start for the Cougars. They didn’t change the big 0 on the scoreboard until Dupree sank in a corner 3-pointer two minutes later.
But this wasn’t just some ordinary University of Houston basketball game.