DALLAS (AP) — Houston is playing in its fifth Sweet 16 in a row, its best March Madness run since making three consecutive Final Four appearances in the Phi Slama Jama era four decades ago.

Tim Casey is a reporter who covers basketball ... the perception of Houston and brought the Cougars back to national relevance for the first time since the Phi Slama Jama days of the mid-1980s.

Alvin Franklin, a guard on the University of Houston’s Phi Slama Jama teams of the early 1980s, died over the weekend. He was 62. Franklin had been in declining health and had suffered a ...

Two of the newest members of the Big 12 are the ones running the league as Houston and Arizona face off for conference lead.