Tough way to end the season but kudos to Coach Davis and our team. I have watched with utter disappointment for the past decade at an incompetent offense year in and year out. This season, we actually played very smooth and fluid. The talent just wasn't there. Give Coach D the same talent as Cal and Davis would beat him 7 out of 10 times. Would love for Cronin to retire and see what Davis could do, but......
Tough way to end the season but kudos to Coach Davis and our team. I have watched with utter disappointment for the past decade at an incompetent offense year in and year out. This season, we actually played very smooth and fluid. The talent just wasn't there. Give Coach D the same talent as Cal and Davis would beat him 7 out of 10 times. Would love for Cronin to retire and see what Davis could do, but......
Another decent article giving us a bit of props for playing a solid game.
http://m.espn.go.com/general/blogs/blogpost?blogname=collegebasketballnation&id=105427
Historically the underground railroad emptied out in Ohio, not Kentucky.This might be one of the few times I have or would ever say this but someone needs to make All Sharpton and or Jesse Jackson aware of all the racism within BBN. Just throwing it out there.
The honest truth is that I felt Ellis and Corey played Towns and Cauley-Stein evenly at least, and outplayed them at times. Lyles was a difference maker though. And our guards struggled. 6-27 for Caupain, Cobb and KJ. Loved Caupain's aggression but wish he had penetrated and passed instead of trying to shoot against the trees. He also needed to use his body a little better on those drives, like he did late in regulation against Hammond and Purdue.
But we knew what the liabilities were going in, Kentucky had a lot to do with exacerbating those liabilities. Can't fault the effort or the gameplan, and I can't be upset with a group of guys that gave their absolute all and did us proud.
Wish we could have that minute Quadri was on the floor back. I totally get what LD was trying to do there but QM doesn't have enough self-awareness yet to realize he shouldn't be shooting 3s, especially cold off the bench. And while I agree with some here that maybe Moore should've been used differently during the regular season for development purposes, doesn't at least a portion of that fall on the kid? He clearly didn't get it at times this year, hence the short suspension. He has 2 choices: realize that he didn't understand the consistency of effort required to get playing time at UC, and resolve to get better this offseason, or feel slighted and misunderstood and transfer. Choice is up to him.
The blog said this, but it could probably be said every year...
"But Cincinnati simply lacked enough offensive skill to pull off the upset..."
How much do you have to pay black basketball players to go to kentucky and forget about the racism? Good lord. How can these fans be like this? If any of those players didnt play for kentucky. Kentucky fans wouldn't want anything to do with them. And that is a sad state of affairs happening in lexington
I don't really pay attention to other fan bases, so I had no idea that Kentucky fans were like that. What an eye opening experience. It is absolutely disgusting. I can't believe there are people out there like that.
Cobb was going to have to hit tough shots in this one, UK's guards are all over 6'5'', Cobb is what barely 6'1'' and struggles to get space against college defensive teams...let alone a semi-pro one. They missed several shots at the rim that they easily could have made and this would have been a close game coming down the stretch. I was actually somewhat impressed with the looks the offense was able to get.
I don't really pay attention to other fan bases, so I had no idea that Kentucky fans were like that. What an eye opening experience. It is absolutely disgusting. I can't believe there are people out there like that.
I went down to the game. Two tickets for two games cost 150. Went to Bluegrass Brewing, had a couple good pale ales and apps, and off to the game. Blue Grass Brewing one block from arena. Also went down for Purdue on Thursday night with similar prices for tickets. Alot of UK fans both nights but obviously more on Saturday. I was thoroughly disappointed in the UC turnout at the UC/UK game. Honestly, there were maybe five UC fans in our entire section. Literally, the entire arena was full of UK fans, at least 17K. All seats were taken. I did see three rows of UC allotted seats at the UCATS area that were empty. Completely empty. Not sure how that happens. UCATS area for big donors on lower level near scoring table. Each team got an entire section. The UC section sat on their collective you know whats most of the game. Only saw them up chanting a couple of times throughout. Not to mention the top two rows of the UC lower level UCATS area were used by blue shirts. Not sure about that one either. Most of the UK fans were good about the game, friendly and humble but obviously even when behind in the first half, some were not. None that were seated near us, but some nasty fans a couple of sections to our left. They were squirming when behind late in the first half. Good to see their faces when were leading and not long after Shaq dunked on them in the first half. I thought the refs were bad. At the start of the game and through the first 10 minutes, it did not appear that we got one call. Davis started jawing with the refs then we got a couple calls but only then. After Moore was put in late in the first half around 3:26 mark, all went to he-- in a bucket. We didn't snap out of it until about 2 minutes left in the game, by that time UK up by 19. Disappointed, but not ready to jump off any bridges.
I don't really pay attention to other fan bases, so I had no idea that Kentucky fans were like that. What an eye opening experience. It is absolutely disgusting. I can't believe there are people out there like that.