That's What I'm Talking About Bishop, Get Some!

UC beat the 22nd ranked Georgetown Hoyas last night.

There is no need to blow this win out of proportion. Georgetown was missing one of their top players (probably their BEST player) with DaJaun Summers on the bench.

We can't get too excited because Georgetown is a team that is struggling and had lost three straight before getting to Cincinnati last night.

Let's try not to put too much stock in one good game.

We shouldn't get too jacked up, but we're going to anyway.

Rashad Bishop is emerging from his shell and slowly becoming an outstanding Pete Mickael-ish threat on offense, Dion Dixon is turning into an Eric Martin clone (yeh, I went there), and Alvin Mitchell finally mixed a bit of coffee in with his cocoa and showed some energy on the floor last night. I know Cronin has said it about this team ad nauseum, but this team is finally maturing and realizing what it takes to win at this level.

It will take another win against either Villanova or Notre Dame to be completely convinced that this game wasn't just a flash in the pan for this year's Cats. Taking care of business tonight was step one, and this team stepped up.

Player of the Game: Rashad Bishop
Has realized that he needs to drive and dish and/or shoot more for this team to be successful. He's not a freshman anymore and he knows that now.

Underrated Player of the Game: Yancey Gates
Four blocks, including a clutch rejection down the stretch to preserve the lead.

Non-player of the game: Mick Cronin
Facing a Princeton-style offense, no back door baskets. That's good big man coaching and the first clearly well-coached game of the season for Cronin.

Bummer of the game: Turnovers
Very very very stupid turnovers (mainly in the first half) is what kept the Hoyas close when the Cats could have got some mid-game seperation.