The Monday following Houston’s Jan. 11 loss to Tulsa, head coach Kelvin Sampson announced on his radio show that he was going to change up the lineup. Since then, the team has responded well to the moves in both practices and games thereafter,
“Sometimes you got to shake things up,” Sampson said, with the team now ranked No. 25 in the nation. “I said, ‘If you’re not going to play the way we want to play, then I’m going to play somebody else.’ ”
In their loss to the Golden Hurricane, UH’s first conference defeat of the season, the Cougars were outscored 9-1 in the final five minutes of the game and turned the ball over 15 times.