St. John's: Great, We Won, But What Does This Win MEAN?

Last night's 71-60 victory over the Red Storm was ugly. How ugly was it, you ask?

Think of that chick/dude that you sidled up to that one time you went to the Sigma Tau party your sophomore year of college. You were on a cold streak, haven't been "romantically intimate" for a while, you were missing the sweet scent of a woman and the soft touch of (fe)male skin on your fingertips. You were also a bit totally wasted. It happens to the best of us.

You started flirting with said girl/guy and then leaned in for a playful touch and then, in that moment of crushing reality that hits you just as you are about to lean in for the kiss, you get a glimpse of her/his mug in the light. Yama-Hama, it's FRIGHT NIGHT! The game was exactly that ugly.

But you go in for the kiss anyway because you're desperate for any kind of assurance that you are a guy/girl that a (wo)man (ANY (wo)man) might be interested in. So you make out, give them a fake phone number, and leave. You achieved that small victory, but now what?

Such is the situation Bearcats fans are in right now after the win at St. John's. Yes, we rallied and even showed a little swagger in the final stretch of a conference road game. Even against a less-than-outstanding team like St. John's, that is bound to result in some confidence building. However, we can take the confidence that small victory has given us two different ways.

1. The "Laurel Resting" way -- In which, we are content to beat a Rutgers or a St. John's and then learn nothing from the lessons we learned while playing aggressively. We lose the next 4 games and effectively end any post season hope we had.

2. The "Slump Buster" way -- In which, we use the confidence, however minor, of hooking up with someone we might consider "below our league" and build on that to steadily take down higher and higher rated opponents. Before we know it, we are on our way to third base with the hottest sorority chick in school, based not on talent or good looks, but rather our confidence alone.

Your move Rashad Bishop.