A season ago during the 2019-20 campaign, the Houston men’s basketball team was still close to mid-December after it had just finished playing its 10th game of the season.
The Cougars held a 7-3 record and they were about to board a plane to Hawaii to compete in the Diamond Head Classic.
Fast forward to the 2020-21 season and 11th-ranked UH just reached the 10-game threshold on Wednesday. The Cougars have also played five conference games already. At the 10-game mark a season ago, they had played zero.
“It’s getting a lot later a lot earlier now,” UH head coach Kelvin Sampson told reporters on Friday in a Zoom call.