Reggie Chaney, a ahead on the Houston males’s basketball staff that reached the Remaining 4 in 2021, has died, the college mentioned Tuesday.
He was 23.
Houston coach Kelvin Sampson known as Chaney the “final teammate” and the epitome of “Cougar basketball tradition.” Sampson added that Chaney was because of go away Aug. 28, to start an expert profession in Greece.
We love and miss you Reggie pic.twitter.com/cYkaxCJXTO
— Coach Kelvin Sampson (@CoachSampsonUH) August 22, 2023
In one other assertion on social media, college chancellor Renu Khator mentioned “the information (of Chaney’s dying) has left us with unhappy and heavy hearts.”
Chaney was discovered useless Monday after a household pal found him unresponsive in a bed room at an condo in Arlington, Texas, police spokesperson Tim Ciesco informed the Houston Chronicle. Chaney was pronounced useless on the scene. Foul play just isn’t suspected, though an investigation is ongoing, Ciesco informed the Chronicle.
Chaney, a local of Tulsa, Oklahoma, performed his first two seasons at Arkansas earlier than ending his school profession with three years at Houston. A 6-foot-8 ahead, he appeared in 32 video games in the course of the 2020-21 season and began in Houston’s Remaining 4 loss to eventual champion Baylor, amassing six factors and two rebounds in 17 minutes.
Final season, he was named the American Athletic Convention’s Sixth Man of the 12 months for a Houston staff that earned a No. 1 seed within the NCAA event earlier than falling within the Candy 16.
