After Houston stunned Duke on Saturday night, coming back in the final minutes of the game to defeat the Blue Devils and advance to the national championship game, Cougars head coach Kelvin Sampson made a clear statement after the victory: "Don't sleep on Houston."
Houston trailed Duke by 14 points with a little over eight minutes remaining in the game, and then by nine points with three minutes remaining. Yet despite facing a legacy program and generational talent in Cooper Flagg, the Cougars did not give up. They instead rallied and went on a 9-0 run over the final 35 seconds of the game to ultimately win 70-67, in what has now been deemed a massive collapse by Duke.
