Michael Young (basketball, born 1961)
Michael Wayne Young is an American retired professional basketball player. He had a 15-year playing career spent in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and overseas. He was most recently the director of basketball operations and performance enhancement at the University of Houston, his alma mater.
Young with the Houston Cougars in the 1980s
Young's #42 was retired at Hofheinz Pavilion on December 18, 2007.
The University of Houston is a public research university in Houston, Texas. It was established in 1927 as Houston Junior College, one of multiple junior college institutions formed in the first decades of the 20th century. In 1934, HJC was restructured as a four-year degree-granting institution and renamed as the University of Houston. Today, Houston is the fourth-largest university in Texas, awarding 11,156 degrees in 2023. It has a worldwide alumni base of nearly 200,000.
UH held its first classes at San Jacinto High School in 1927
Built in 1939, the Roy G. Cullen Building is the first building on campus
University of Houston, circa 1950
A.D. Bruce Religion Center, named after the university's third president