Coming off two tough road losses in a row the week before, UH head coach Kelvin Sampson pulled aside his senior point guard Jamal Shead, the team’s emotional leader and the face of the program, during shootaround before the team’s game against No. 25 Texas Tech Wednesday night.
“I told him how much I appreciated him,” Sampson said. “Not for anything he’s done other than how far he’s come.”
The talk evidently worked wonders as Shead scored a career-high 29 points to go with 10 assists to drive No. 5 Houston past No. 25 Texas Tech 77-54 in an impressive bounce-back win in the Fertitta Center.