UH hosts Van, Big Syl and LSU

The Houston Lady Cougars will face the LSU Lady Tigers this Thursday, November, inside Hofheinz Pavilion.

Tip - off is set for 7pm.

The Tigers are coached by former Houston Comets head coach -- Van Chancellor. Remember him?!

LSU is led by 6'6 senior center Sylvia Fowles. "Big Syl" is one of the top players in women's college hoops; and, she is expected to be one of the players chosen in the 2008 WNBA Draft.

If you haven't seen this already, here's a clip of Big Syl's dunk last week, November 21, versus Louisana-Lafayette:



Despite what the sportscaster says in the video, Fowles is the sixth (not fifth) women to dunk in a women's college basketball game. (He forgot to mention Houston's Sancho Lyttle dunked in a game versus Gonzaga Friday, November 22, 2003, in the Iowa Hawkeye Challenge. I've seen Lyttle's dunk -- thanks to Houston's coaching staff -- it's a dunk; but, not a very clean one.)

The game will also be a homecoming (of sorts) for Tigers' guard RaShonta LeBlanc. LeBlanc played her high school ball at Port Arthur Memorial HS.