Houston secured the second spot in the NCAA men's tournament title game with a furious rally to defeat Duke. The Cougars will face Florida on Monday.

Houston uncorked mayhem in the penultimate game of this year's NCAA Tournament with an amazing comeback Saturday to defeat Duke 70-67 in the Final Four. The Cougars erased a 14-point second-half deficit and closed on a 25-8 run to stun the Blue Devils, tying for the second-largest Final Four comeback in the last decade.

Proctor missed the front end of the one-and-one, and then it got worse. On the rebound, Blue Devils superstar Cooper Flagg got called for a foul, immediately sending J'Wan Roberts to the line because Houston was in the bonus. Roberts made both to give his team the lead for the first time since the 14:42 mark of the first half.

A relatively mundane men’s NCAA Tournament was playing to script late Saturday night at the Alamodome, another boring double-digit Duke win to digest, leaving us with faint hopes of Florida phenom Walter Clayton Jr.

The veteran coach has rebuilt the Cougars with grit, substance and character. He just earned his greatest victory in the Final Four against Duke.

Duke blowing the lead in their Final Four loss to Houston will take the headlines. However, the Cougars earned this win with their insane commitment to the game.

Jim Nantz, the Houston alumnus who's witnessed scores of Cougars heartbreak, said Saturday's stunning Final Four win over Duke "soothes a lot of wounds."

Duke tried a little bit of all of that Saturday night in a national semifinal for the ages. In the same game where the Blue Devils looked like they should be awarded a national championship before it was played Monday night,