The Cougars ended their regular season on a four-match win streak capped off by wins over Louisiana Tech and Grambling State and that success will help heading into today’s Conference USA Tournament.
“We knew we needed to win out to secure good seeding and that’s exactly what we did,” head coach John Severance said.
UH finished the regular season 13-7, its 10th straight winning season and eighth under Severance.
The Cougars will meet up with Southern Miss today in Memphis, Tenn.
The Cougars played a tougher schedule this season in a bid to claim a national ranking and it should pay dividends in the tournament.
“Going into the conference tournament, I think we’re a more disciplined team, we don’t make the same mistakes we did earlier in the season and have cut down on the errors,” Severance said.
“We’ve had a lot of close matches this season and sometimes the breaks didn’t go our way but we battled and that showed a lot about this team.”
What is Coach Severance’s background? Is his first name John? Seems to me there was a John Severance at UH back in the 1953-57 era.