No. 2 seed Tennessee (30-7) will play No. 1 seed Houston (33-4) Sunday in the Elite Eight of the 2025 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament.
Tipoff between the Vols and Cougars in the Midwest Region final is slated for 2:20 p.m. EDT at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Kelvin Sampson has served as Houston's head coach since 2014. He also served as a head coach at Montana Tech (1981-85), Washington State (1987-94), Oklahoma (1994-2006) and Indiana (2006-08).
During Sampson's tenures at Oklahoma and Indiana, former Tennessee basketball head coach Jerry Green was his director of basketball operations.