Bearcats Win

About 15 minutes ago the final seconds clicked off the clock and the Bearcats got a road win against a top 10 team, beating the Georgetown Hoyas. If they weren't in the tournament before they're in now. There's no way the selection committee can keep them out. They now have quality wins against Georgetown, Louisville, St. Johns, and Xavier. Add to that they don't have any bad losses and their resume stacks up favorably to about every bubble team out there.

The Bearcats basically dominated the game tonight. Their defense was smothering and Georgetown couldn't get anything going offensively. The offense didn't look great, but it did enough to win the game and that's all that matters. The Hoyas looked dejected in the 2nd half and even though UC has squandered away big leads before you knew that Georgetown wasn't coming back because they knew they weren't coming back. You could see it on their faces, not one player looked confident that they were going to get back in the game.

Dion Dixon is starting to play very well. So is Gates, he was dominant tonight against a team that has a lot of big bodies. The effort from him was excellent and hopefully he can keep it going the rest of this year and lead this team next year back into the ranks of college elite teams. Back where Cincinnati basketball belongs.

This team may be getting hot at just the right time. The more wins against ranked teams they get, the more confident they should get. Hopefully this is setting up for them to make a deep run in both the Big East and NCAA tournaments. If only one i'll take the NCAA tournament. Who knows if they can keep it up and get a win against Connecticut and knock off a good team in the Big East tournament or two they could end up getting a 5 or 6 seed. A good draw and some upsets in their section of the bracket and maybe a sweet 16 or elite 8 run is in the cards for this team. You never know, no one had the 92 team inked into the final four.