Nov. 9, 2009

HOUSTON - Single-game tickets for the University of Houston men's basketball first four home games go on sale at 8 a.m., Tuesday.

The Cougars open their season at 7 p.m., Nov. 17, when they play host to Nicholls State inside Hofheinz Pavilion. From there, the team faces, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (Dec. 6), Troy (Dec. 14) and No. 18/19 Mississippi State (Dec. 19)

Single-game tickets for the remaining 11 men's home games go on sale at 8 a.m., Dec 15.

Fans can purchase tickets for any of the remaining 11 home games prior to the single-game tickets sale by purchasing season tickets or one of the mini-pack options. Season tickets are on sale now and start at $135.

In addition, fans that buy new season tickets can select their exact seating location at the time of ordering. Season-ticket packages start at $135 or by purchasing one of the package options.

Those mini-pack options include the Conference-USA Pack, Weekend Pack and Pick-4 Pack and they start at only $35.

Conference USA Pack
This package includes all eight home games against Conference USA teams. This season, the Cougars are scheduled to face Tulsa (Jan. 9), UTEP (Jan. 13), UCF (Jan. 20), Marshall (Jan. 30), Southern Miss (Feb. 6), SMU (Feb. 13), Memphis (Feb. 24) and Rice (March 3).

Pick Four Pack
With this package, fans can choose tickets to any four home games they would like to attend.

Both the Conference USA Pack and the Pick-4 Pack include the Memphis and Rice games and gives fans the option to buy before they go on sale to the general public.

Weekend Pack
Fans can purchase tickets for all six home games played on either Saturday or Sunday this season. That package includes games against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (Dec. 6), Mississippi State (Dec. 19), Tulsa (Jan. 9), Marshall (Jan. 30), Southern Miss (Feb. 6) and SMU (Feb. 13).

WOMEN'S TICKETS
Single-game tickets for all home women's games also go on sale at 8 a.m., Tuesday. Women's season tickets are also on sale and start at only $75.

ATHLETICS TICKET OFFICE
Fans can purchase season tickets on-line at UHCougars.com by clicking the "Tickets" link, by calling 713-GO-COOGS (462-6647) or by visiting the Athletics Ticket Office on the first floor of the Athletics/Alumni Center during regular business hours, Monday through Friday.

ABOUT THE COUGARS
The Cougars return four starters and eight lettermen from last season's team, which posted a 21-12 overall record and competed in a postseason tournament for the fourth time in the last five seasons.

Leading the way are senior guards Aubrey Coleman and Kelvin Lewis, the top two returning scorers in Conference USA. Coleman, an All-Conference USA First-Team honoree and the league's Newcomer of the Year, averaged a team-high 19.4 points per game and was the only player to rank among the C-USA top-individual leaders in both scoring and rebounding.

Lewis tallied 18.0 points per game and ranked among the league leaders in scoring, free throw shooting, 3-pointers made and minutes played per game.

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