It is disheartening as all hell to watch another close game go to the other team. Especially when, like Butler and IA. ST., it was ours to lose. And lose we did.
So we sit at 11-5 when most of us probably had it penciled in that after 16 games we would be no worse than 14-2 or 13-3.
Like most, I am crushed.
But, it's just not in me to quit believing. Over the next 10 games we will have a REAL idea of the mettle our guys are made of. Looking at the schedule, @UCONN and @ Memphis look like tough games. How would you react at an 8-2 record over those 10? that would put us at 19-7. Is it what we would have predicted to start the season? Maybe. Maybe not.
My point is that the season is young enough to still gel and become the team we all thought we would be this year. Of course, on the flip side we could see some head scratching losses and go 6-4 or 5-5 and by then will have played ourselves out of any tourney talk.
But only time will tell.
Stay the course gentlemen. At the end of the day, as fans, we are in this together because we love our Bearcats.
I'm all for seeing it play out. I BELIEVE it will turn for the better. I have to.