Houston Cougars Dominate Idaho in NCAA Tournament

University of Houstons mens basketball team, ranked fifth, dominated fifteenth-seeded Idaho in the first round of the N-C-double-A Tournament, winning seventy-eight to forty-seven. Freshman guard Kingston Flemings led with eighteen points, while senior Emanuel Sharp contributed sixteen. Houston, with twenty-nine wins and six losses, improved to the second seed in the South Region. Five players scored in double figures, including freshman forward Chris Cenac Junior with a career-high eighteen rebounds. Idaho, making their first tournament appearance since nineteen ninety, got fourteen points from Kolton Mitchell. Houston shook off an early deficit, outscoring Idaho forty-one to fourteen over fifteen minutes to lead forty-eight to twenty-four at halftime. They extended their lead in the second half. Houston now faces tenth-seeded Texas A&M on Saturday in the South Region.

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