Thursday, February 12, 2009

The Smackdown Layeth


Cincinnati completed its second sweep of the B.East season, capitalizing on an "easy-win" situation over St. John's.  7-5, now tied for 6th in the B.East.  

How about Yancey manning up beyond belief?  And when was the last time that Vaughn was the 3rd leading scorer when he still scored about his average?  (Never).  We tried our best to lose by giving St. John's literally infinity offensive rebounds; however, they're St. John's, so they didn't capitalize.  After Georgetown we were selected as one of the ever-coveted "last-four-out-of-the-tourney" team.  I'm looking on the bright side of things, as far as UC is concerned, and my optimism may be more wishful thinking than anything else, but regardless, we have a good team this year, THIS year.  Time will tell how the season plays out, but I think we deserve to go to the NCAA tournament, and I think we will.  And when this happens, I will fill out every bracket with the Bearcats as the victors, naturally.  

Player of the Game: Yancey Gates
Making his second straight POTG nomination, Gates did some serious work and took it to the struggling Red Storm.  He made mere child's play of their big men, throwing down 21 in one of his best overall games.  Good work, kid.

Underrated Player of the Game: Mike Williams
There you go, son!  Finally getting back into it!  Williams is Gates' compliment, and with the added threat down low we're going to be hard to beat during (what's that?) TOURNAMENT TIME!

Bummer of the Game: Rebounds
As I said before, we got manned up in the o-rebounding category.  We do that to Pitt or Louisville, and keep giving them second chances, we will get run over.  We're lucky it was St. Johns.
Posted by Eric at 5:13 PM
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3 comments:

  1. DeniseFebruary 12, 2009 at 6:04 PM

    What?? UC winning every game in your bracket for March madness??? What happened to picking UNC every year to win it all?? I find it hard to believe you would give up on them!

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  2. KellerFebruary 12, 2009 at 9:16 PM

    If I'm not mistaken, parts of this blog entry were taken from an email between Eric and myself, and the part about picking UC to win it all was my part (although I don't think Eric would scoff at my bracket if filled out that way). Living in Charlotte, I've already had enough of the ACC, UNC included, even though they are the "local team" I'm cheering for. Regardless, I stand by my statement that UC deserves to be in the NCAA Tournament, and when that time comes, I will most definitely have them going all the way...all the way back, am I right?

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  3. EmilyFebruary 14, 2009 at 11:31 AM

    Yancey Pants is definitely the man... I have the mere hope that UC will make it past the 2nd round of the bracket once they make it in this year. Forreal.

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