At a Rockets home game in late December, Fertitta met with Cooper, Comets coach Van Chancellor and Comets star Tina Thompson in his suite at Toyota Center. He wanted to gauge their interest in his ...

Last March, renowned coach Van Chancellor was thrilled that Lisa Leslie, Sheryl Swoopes and Dawn Staley had come to Houston to try out for his 2002 World Basketball Championship team. He wasn t ...

"I would love to see a team come back here,” Van Chancellor, who coached the Comets to their four titles, said earlier in the NBA season. “I think we’re still in the hearts and minds of a ...

The Ole Miss women's basketball program had a storied tradition throughout the 1980s and 1990s under head coach Van Chancellor but fell on hard times around the turn of the century. After just ...

Jerkaila Jordan scored 20 points, Erynn Barnum added a double-double and No. 25 Mississippi State held off Arkansas-Pine Bluff 77-68 on Saturday in the Van Chancellor Classic. Rennia Davis had 17 ...