(03-18-2020 04:11 PM)Jonathan Sadow Wrote:  

(03-18-2020 09:40 AM)Hambone10 Wrote:  As a student, loved watching Rice ALMOST take down (H)Akeem and PSJ.... think it was 1982?

That was 1984, in the SWC tournament semifinals, when the Owls nearly erased a 15-point second-half deficit to fall to the Cougars 53-50. For Houston, which wound up as NCAA tournament final runners-up, it was its lowest point output in a game all season.

I was on the SWC stat crew for that game with a group that was mostly from UH. When we got behind, they kept asking, "Why doesn't Rice speed things up to try to catch up?" Instead, Rice slowed it down more. They forced a tempo that UH just wasn't very good at playing, and slowly worked their way back into the game. The UH crew members were just astounded, and were wanting Guy V to start pressing and speed it up, but they did just enough to hang on.