Where did the head coach of the 2016-17 Houston Cougars men's basketball team first work as a head coach?
2016–17 Houston Cougars men's basketball team The 2016–17 Houston Cougars men's basketball team represented the University of Houston during the 2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Cougars were led by third-year head coach Kelvin Sampson and were members of the American Athletic Conference. The Cougars played their home games at Hofheinz Pavilion. They finished the season 21–11, 12–6 in AAC play to finish in third place. They lost to Connecticut in the quarterfinals of the AAC Tournament. They received an at-large bid to the National Invitation Tournament as a No. 2 seed and lost in the first round to Akron.
B. J. Hill Benjamin Joseph Hill (born May 17, 1973) is an American college basketball coach and former head men's basketball coach at the University of Northern Colorado. He began coaching the Bears in 2010–11, when he guided them to the school's first-ever NCAA Division I Tournament berth, where they would lose in the Round of 64. He won the Big Sky Conference Coach of the Year that season.