Updated: November 6, 2009, 12:59 PM ET

Team preview: Houston

Blue Ribbon Yearbook previews the 2009-10 season, exclusively on Insider

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(Information in this team report is as of Oct. 1.)

COACH AND PROGRAM

If Conference USA gave an award to the coach with the most optimistic preseason outlook, Houston's Tom Penders would win it every year. Whereas most coaches try to protect themselves by managing expectations, Penders has never sold his team short, regardless of what he's got on paper.

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