University of Houston NCAA News

HOUSTON - Case Keenum threw for 405 yards and five touchdowns in just more than two quarters, and No.

Although the Nevada basketball team is only two games into a five-month season, it has already been handed its first dose of adversity.

Charles Sims scores a touchdown for the Houston Cougars, and Bryce Beall wants to get into the end zone twice.

Clemson running back C.J. Spiller is listed among the top five candidates for the Heisman Trophy in eight published polls this week.

Here is an Associated Press preview of the Memphis Tigers at Houston Cougars. Memphis vs.

The 24th-ranked Houston Cougars open a regular- season ending two-game homestand this weekend, as they try to bounce back against the Memphis Tigers in Conference USA play at Robertson Stadium.

By JIMMY BURCH Alabama running back Mark Ingram lengthened his lead in the Scripps Howard News Service's weekly Heisman Trophy poll, released Wednesday.

Aubrey Coleman scored 33 points and grabbed nine rebounds Tuesday night in Houston's season-opening trouncing of Nicholls State 92-60. [ SPORTS BLOG : Read the latest from the Eyewitness Sports team ] Coleman was 12-for-25 from the floor, including a pair of 3-pointers. It was the fourth time in his career he scored 30 points or more.

Houston remains the only Conference USA team in the AP Top 25. It hasn't appeared worthy of that position recently.

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It's easy to blame the Houston Cougar defense for Saturday's 37-32 loss to the University of Central Florida Knights.

Central Florida not only found a way to slow down Case Keenum and No. 13 Houston, the Knights didn't give the nation's most prolific passer a chance to pull off another improbable comeback.

Houston quarterback Case Keenum throws a pass during the fourth quarter of an NCAA football game against Central Florida in Orlando Fla., Saturday, Nov.

2. Case Keenum, junior, QB, Houston : Numbers are simply amazing on a one-loss football team.

LIVE CHAT: Join Steve Campbell at 1 p.m. today to talk about the Cougars and Saturday's game against Central Florida .

The time has come. The time for Tom Penders and his Cougars basketball team to show their worth.

Steve Spurrier swears it makes no difference who's on the other sideline. That seems hard to fully believe since few have as deep a love for Gator blue and orange than South Carolina's head ball coach, also one of Florida's most famous and beloved players and coaches.

He's more deserving than Florida 's Tim Tebow , more deserving than Alabama 's Mark Ingram , more deserving than even Texas ' Colt McCoy .

The top offense in the nation will take the field on Saturday afternoon in Orlando when the Houston Cougars square off against the UCF Knights in a Conference USA matchup.

Coming off another thrilling victory, the 13th- ranked Houston Cougars head to the Sunshine State, where they will face off against the UCF Knights in Conference USA action at Bright House Networks Stadium.