{"id":355409,"date":"2025-11-04T16:44:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T16:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/355409\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T16:44:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T16:44:21","slug":"cougars-head-coach-kelvin-sampson-earns-800th-win-as-no-2-houston-beats-lehigh-75-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/355409\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougars head coach Kelvin Sampson earns 800th win as No. 2 Houston beats Lehigh 75-57"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HOUSTON, Texas &#8212; Emanuel Sharp scored 24 points to lead second-ranked Houston to a 75-57 win over Lehigh for coach Kelvin Sampson&#8217;s 800th career win on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Sharp had 13 points in the first half on 5-of-8 shooting as Houston (1-0) built a 44-23 halftime lead. The Cougars shot 57% in the first half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Chris Cenac Jr. added with 12 points and 10 rebounds, Milos Uzan scored 12 points, and Joseph Tugler had 11 points for Houston, which shot 43% for the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Sampson improved to 800-354 in his 37-year career, including 300-84 since taking over at Houston in 2014. He became the 17th NCAA Division I coach to reach 800 wins and the fourth active coach to achieve the milestone, joining Rick Barnes, John Calipari, and Bill Self.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Nasir Whitlock had 18 points and nine rebounds, and Caleb Thomas and Hank Alvey each added 10 points for Lehigh (0-1). The Mountain Hawks shot 37%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Houston unveiled its second NCAA Final Four banner in the last five seasons prior to the game, marking the Cougars&#8217; national runner-up finish last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The Cougars jumped out to a 15-2 lead in the first six minutes behind 10 points from Cenac, including a 3-pointer with 14:10 remaining in the half for the 13-point lead. Lehigh started 1 for 10 from the field.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, Texas &#8212; Emanuel Sharp scored 24 points to lead second-ranked Houston to a 75-57 win over Lehigh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":355410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[173507,4345,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-355409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-173507","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115492439066709870","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}