UH defenders Latrell McCutchin Sr. and Juwon Gaston were ejected from the game for targeting calls on separate plays. McCutchin sat out the second half, while Gaston will have to sit for the first half of next Saturday's Big 12 opener at Cincinnati.

Joseph Duarte covers University of Houston athletics and the Big 12 Conference for the Houston Chronicle. He can be reached at [email protected].

A University of Texas at Austin graduate, Joseph joined the Houston Chronicle as part of an internship through the Sports Journalism Institute in 1995 and never left. He previously wrote about the Houston Astros from 1998-2002, Houston Texans from 2002-05 and the Texas Longhorns from 2005-09.

Joseph's work has been recognized nationally by the Associated Press Sports Editors and in 2022 he was named the Celeste Williams Star Sportswriter of the Year by the Texas Association of Managing Editors.