The boys are back here at the beginning of the hot part of the year with a variety of interesting Houston Cougar sports topics, including the following:

• Looking at the 2 newest men's hoopers: Pop Isaacs of Creighton and Kalifa Sakho of Sam Houston, what they've done in their careers prior to arriving at UH and how they could fit onthe 2025-26 team.
• Terrance Arceneaux departs men's hoops, our best memories & what went right/wrong in his time at UH, plus Milos Uzan's unsurprising decision to test the NBA draft waters
• Matthew Mitchell makes some intriguing hires on his 1st women's hoops staff
• A Cougar Golf Corner featuring the women's team winning an event in Dallas that Bobby caught in person & beginning competition at Big 12 championships & an encouraging event finish in Arizona from the men's team ahead of Big 12s next week
• A Cougar Tennis Corner where Sam finally got to watch the Coogs in person for 2 very different matches in Utah that showed how far the team has to go & also the positive signs of the culture Kat Adamovic has started building in year 1
• Baseball gets swept for the 2nd time in 3 home Big 12 series and it feels like another week of 1 step forward, 2 steps back

The boys return to discuss a tough loss from an absolute classic of a national championship game against Florida and the unbridaled joy of the semifinal come from behind win against Duke and its crew of uber talented freshmen. 

The boys are back in town again in classic pawdcast fashion to talk about an absolutely jam packed week of Houston Cougar sports and news, including the following topics:

• A titanic men's basketball Final Four showdown with Duke, previewing everything about the Blue Devils and their various uber talented freshmen
• Matthew Mitchell takes over as UH women's basketball head coach, unpacking his impressive coaching resume & what he can realistically achieve here
• A TRIUMPHANT Tennis Corner off of a 1st ever Big 12 victory
• What we learned about Track & Field's top performances at the Texas Relays
• A disappointing baseball series loss to TCU that has the boys asking a lot of the same questions as before

This is an episode where we can dispense with the usual preamble as HOUSTON COUGAR MEN'S BASKETBALL IS GOING TO THE FINAL FOUR... thanks to wins over Purdue and Tennessee, which Bobby and Sam talked about in this here pawdcast.

Bobby and Sam are back to discuss what is certainly the highest profile Houston Cougar news of the week that was, plus everything else current in the world of UH sports, including the following topics:

• Previewing the Coogs' Sweet 16 men's basketball opponent, the Purdue Boilermakers, what they're good and areas where the Coogs can take advantage
• A historic performance at the NCAA Swim & Dive championships
• Baseball has us feeling sort of optimistic (?) again
• Track & Field opens Outdoor season at home
• A mostly positive Cougar Golf Corner, featuring both the men's and women's teams

The boys are back (the boys are back) approximately 18 hours after the Houston Cougars punched their 6th straight ticket to at least the Sweet 16 of the NCAA men's basketball tournament. Talking takeaways and best moments from Saturday night's win over Gonzaga and finding time to recap a comprehensive thrashing of SIUE in the round of 64 on Thursday.

The boys are back... with some slightly more marinated thoughts about the Houston Cougars' opening round NCAA men's basketball tournament opponent, included among the following topics:

• Preview the SIUE Cougars with help from beat writer Matthew Kamp and additional thoughts from the guys
• Looking at a future, potential round of 32 match up in UH's future
• Recapping the Cougar performances from the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships
• A triumphant Cougar golf corner with our best men's result from the current season
• A much less triumphant return to talking Cougar baseball after getting decisively swept at home by Texas Tech on opening weekend

The boys are back on the joyous occasion of the 2025 NCAA Tournament bracket reveal, with the Cougars getting a 1 seed for the 3rd straight season and thoughts about the remaining teams in the Coogs' part of the bracket, including a possible heartburn inducing 8-seed lurking.

A little taste of what the wonderful people who financially support the work that Bobby and Sam do on a weekly basis get for their support and in this case that's a meaty full Big 12 men's basketball preview, featuring the guys' thoughts and 7 different school-specific experts to talk about the teams in and around the NCAA Tournament, without getting bogged down in the usual bracket minutiae.

Bobby and Sam return for a hoops-heavy, but not hoops-exclusive episode here in mid-March with the following Houston Cougar sports topics on offer:

• Recapping a men's hoops regular season finale win over Baylor, LJ Cryer's phenomenal performance, and Bobby's in person experience in Waco
• Thoughts before the Big 12 men's hoops tournament & what the guys would like to see from the Coogs in KC
• UH and former WBB head coach Ron Hughey part ways, where UH should look next and bigger picture program questions
• A quick look at the UH athletes representing at the NCAA Indoor Track & Field and Swimming & Diving championships
• Bonus baseball & women's golf thoughts