The Houston men’s basketball team got past Tulane behind an offensive explosion in the second half in the American Athletic Conference quarterfinals on Friday evening.
The Cougars shot an impressive 60 percent from the field and put up 44 points in the second half. UH had struggled from the field in the first half, shooting only 36 percent, but slowly started to turn it around in the second period and were able to pull away as the half progressed.
Back-to-back 3-pointers from junior guard Quentin Grimes and sophomore guard Marcus Sasser gave UH its first double-digit lead in the game towards the middle of the second half, and the Cougars only kept building the momentum from there.