University of Houston
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University of Houston | |
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City: | Houston, Texas |
Type: | Public |
Sports: | baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, track and field, volleyball[1] |
Colors: | red, blue |
Mascot: | Shasta (Cougars) |
Website: | http://www.uh.edu/ |
University of Houston is a Texas public university founded in 1927.[2] It was ranked a fourth tier school in US News's 2008 "National Universities: Top Schools" list.[3]
Athletics
Houston currently has 6 men's and 8 women's sports teams.[1] The football program has won 6 bowl games (while losing 9 and tying 1).[4] It has also made the men's basketball Final Four six times, though never winning a title (losing in 1983 on a last-second shot to North Carolina State).