Houston basketball secured its spot in the Final Four on Saturday with an Elite Eight win vs. Tennessee. Here's the Cougars history in the Final Four:

Tennessee veterans Zakai Zeigler and Jahmai Mashack were part of the Volunteers team that lost to Purdue in the Elite Eight last year. They could have left to explore their professional basketball opportunities, but decided to return to Tennessee for another opportunity like the one they have today.

The University of Houston is playing just 200 miles from campus, but tickets to get inside San Antonio's Alamodome are expensive.

More than a hundred University of Houston students and Cougars fans sent off the school's men's basketball team Wednesday as they boarded buses bound for San Antonio and the Final Four

With a 69-50 win over Tennessee that perfectly captured everything Sampson's program is about, Houston is on its way back to the Final Four

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While some have complained that the lack of upsets have made the 2025 NCAA tournament a little less interesting, what we're left with is all four No. 1 seeds in the Final Four for only the second time in history.

Cinderella will not be found at the Final Four. Instead, the favorites are headed to the last weekend of the 2025 men's NCAA tournament.