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HOUSTON<\/a> (AP) Emanuel Sharp scored 24 points to lead second-ranked Houston to a 75-57 win over Lehigh<\/a> for coach Kelvin Sampson\u2019s 800th career win on Monday night.<\/p>\n Sharp had 13 points in the first half on 5-of-8 shooting as Houston (1-0) built a 44-23 halftime lead. The Cougars shot 57% in the first half.<\/p>\n Chris Cenac Jr. added with 12 points and 10 rebounds, Milos Uzan scored 12 points and Joseph Tugler had 11 points for Houston, which shot 43% for the game.<\/p>\n Sampson improved to 800-354 in his 37-year career, including 300-84 since taking over at Houston in 2014. He became the 17th NCAA Division I coach to reach 800 wins and fourth active coach to achieve the milestone, joining Rick Barnes, John Calipari and Bill Self.<\/p>\n Nasir Whitlock had 18 points and nine rebounds, and Caleb Thomas and Hank Alvey each added 10 points for Lehigh (0-1). The Mountain Hawks shot 37%.<\/p>\n Houston unveiled its second NCAA Final Four banner in the last five seasons prior to the game, marking the Cougars\u2019 national runner-up finish last season.<\/p>\n The Cougars. jumped out to a 15-2 lead in the first six minutes behind 10 points from Cenac, including a 3-pointer with 14:10 remaining in the half for the 13-point lead. Lehigh started 1 for 10 from the field.<\/p>\n Lehigh hosts Valley Forge on Thursday.<\/p>\n Houston hosts Towson on Saturday.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here and here (AP News mobile app). AP college basketball: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-basketball<\/p>\n \n Copyright 2025 STATS LLC and Associated Press. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of STATS LLC and Associated Press is strictly prohibited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON (AP) Emanuel Sharp scored 24 points to lead second-ranked Houston to a 75-57 win over Lehigh for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2692,56,2742,58,57,21828],"class_list":{"0":"post-34469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-college-basketball","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-cougars","11":"tag-houston-headlines","12":"tag-houston-news","13":"tag-lehigh-mountain-hawks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}