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South Florida hasn't been a good venue for the Cats. The last two trips there, if I'm remembering correctly, have been losses.

Kenpom has USF at 173: 102.1 for AdjO (ranked 211th for AdjO) and 102.6 AdjD (ranked 141th for AdjD)

This is clearly a winnable game but Tampa seems to have some bad Mojo for the Cats. Nothing on the road in conference is ever easy but I'll say the Cats take this one 64-57.
 
Yeah, I hate to admit but USF is a black hole for us. I still think we can and will come away with a win.

UC-67
USF-60

On a side note: Has anyone been to their campus? I walked around it two years ago when I went to Busch Gardens because they are basically right next to each other. (which is awesome by the way haha) I was not impressed with their campus at all. Thinking of it being in Florida and having places called the Sun Dome and stuff I was expecting a "beachy" feel. Its ugly, highly congested with traffic and in a shady area. It made me appreciate UC's campus much much more.
 
I would be much more concerned if Anthony Collins was playing and it doesn't appear he is going to be back this season. With Collins, I think USF could have developed into an NIT level team, without him they aren't very good at all.

I am still concerned with the poor starts the past two games, eventually you will dig a hole you cannot get out of. USF has been miserable to Cats since they lost to them in the Conference USA tournament I believe the last year in C-USA...

I'll go Cincinnati 60, South Florida 57
 
Victor Rudd is a good player but I expect Titus to guard him well, I expect us to come out ready and focused and win easily. We will be ready to play
 
Bearcat_NTS said:
I would be much more concerned if Anthony Collins was playing and it doesn't appear he is going to be back this season. With Collins, I think USF could have developed into an NIT level team, without him they aren't very good at all.

I am still concerned with the poor starts the past two games, eventually you will dig a hole you cannot get out of. USF has been miserable to Cats since they lost to them in the Conference USA tournament I believe the last year in C-USA...

I'll go Cincinnati 60, South Florida 57
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I watched some of their game at Temple last week and Stan Heath's son, Josh, did a good job of running the point. He had 5 assists and 0 turnovers in 19 minutes. It was just his first game of the year because he was redshirting.

Have to guard Rudd a lot better than they did last year and need to avoid foul trouble, otherwise Perry and Egbunu could go off in the paint. I have a bad feeling about this game.
 
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UCalum08 said:
Yeah, I hate to admit but USF is a black hole for us. I still think we can and will come away with a win.

UC-67
USF-60

On a side note: Has anyone been to their campus? I walked around it two years ago when I went to Busch Gardens because they are basically right next to each other. (which is awesome by the way haha) I was not impressed with their campus at all. Thinking of it being in Florida and having places called the Sun Dome and stuff I was expecting a "beachy" feel. Its ugly, highly congested with traffic and in a shady area. It made me appreciate UC's campus much much more.
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It is an ugly campus indeed.

Cronin will have them ready after some poor play last night.

I am hoping to get to this game to watch the "Running Over of the Bulls" but I have my entire family coming to Florida that night and staying on the east coast. What timing...I had two games circled on my calendar this year.
 
UC 67
SF 61

Close game at half, UC jumps out to a 15 point lead to start the 2nd, USF makes a nice little run but not enough to come back.

No game on the road is easy. Just win. Take it and run with it.
 
UC 72-59. The game will be closer than the score indicates, but we will shoot some free throws towards the end sort of like the Temple game and it will look better than it was. A road win is big no matter who the opponent, however, so we can't sleep walk through this game.
 
UC just needs to take care of business. I agree with Jeff that this game should play like the Rutgers game. We're a top 25 team, USF isn't very good, time to beat them. We cannot afford to lose this game if we want to get a high seed in the NCAA's and finish the season inside the top 15.

UC - 66
USF - 48
 
Certainly a winnable road game. Hope the team is embracing the idea of changing another trend. We have historically played terrible there.
 
UCBearcats said:
UC just needs to take care of business. I agree with Jeff that this game should play like the Rutgers game. We're a top 25 team, USF isn't very good, time to beat them. We cannot afford to lose this game if we want to get a high seed in the NCAA's and finish the season inside the top 15.

UC - 66
USF - 48
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Agreed! If we want to compete for the championship, these are the games we must win. If we come out and play like we did in the 1st half against Houston for the entire USF game...that would be awesome! lol :cool:
 
UCalum08 said:
Agreed! If we want to compete for the championship, these are the games we must win. If we come out and play like we did in the 1st half against Houston for the entire USF game...that would be awesome! lol :cool:
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really need to win this game? Will probably be a tough game but Championship teams find ways to win. Need to keep the pressure on the teams chasing us.
 

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