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CBI 1st round- Cincinnati at Bradley- 6:00 pm Wednesday
- Thread starter Da Coach
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HoopsFan1-- Welcome. We're pretty proud of our guard play too... It's the interior we tend to get worried about. Subflea, not sure if Cincy fans (I'm assuming you are) are aware or not, but Bradley had heavily recruited Sikes too, which is why I made that comment. Think he probably would have played some more minutes at BU, but you guys landed him instead.
You guys don't want to see Deonta Vaughn in Carver though!
Can he dunk....thats the question. A couple years ago some Kansas fans told us we wanted no part of some of THEIR players and impressed us all with there videos and stories of how these guys could really dunk the ball.
We ALMOST decided to concede the game...but we played them anyway.
Now about Pitt.......
I knew you guys were in on Sikes. He really hasn't produced as much as we were hoping. He likes to play on the perimeter. Last year he shot well, but this year struggled some.
Our second best player is an undersized PF, John Williamson. We are weak at center. We have 6'10" SR Adam Hyrcaniuk who is a good role player, but struggles on the offensive side. Behind him is 6'11" FR Anthony "Biggie" McClain, who is full of potential, but like most FR big men, he is very raw. He is also suffering from a foot injury that has slowed him down all year.
Just from looking at your teams stats, it looks like this is one of the few games we have had this year where we may have the advantage in the paint. What scares me is we have trouble defending on the perimeter some and a lot of teams seem to have their best nights shooting the 3 against us.
Our second best player is an undersized PF, John Williamson. We are weak at center. We have 6'10" SR Adam Hyrcaniuk who is a good role player, but struggles on the offensive side. Behind him is 6'11" FR Anthony "Biggie" McClain, who is full of potential, but like most FR big men, he is very raw. He is also suffering from a foot injury that has slowed him down all year.
Just from looking at your teams stats, it looks like this is one of the few games we have had this year where we may have the advantage in the paint. What scares me is we have trouble defending on the perimeter some and a lot of teams seem to have their best nights shooting the 3 against us.
We don't have a lot of guys that dunk. Williamson is very explosive, but that about sums it up. Vaughn is just a great player. He has been the most consistent player on the floor for us. Even with teams focusing on him, knowing we don't have many other scoring options, he has still averaged more than 17 and was first team all Big East. He is one of those guys that is just fun to watch. He works very hard without the ball to get open and has a good shot. He is very clutch and is the guy you want with the ball at the end of a game.
MacabreMob
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Hey - I wanna know what BParker and KK are doing to hype this game.
There is a TON of history with Cincinnati. Is the Big O being invited to come in for the game? Is the pre-game video highlights gonna showcase a lot of pics/video from the 50's and 60's of games with Cincinnati? Is Mike Williams coming back? Obviously Dick Versace will be around. I expect Paul Unruh, Eddy King and many-many more will be in attendance.
Help us out here DC... get on the horn with BParker and also email Dave Snell.
And hey... are we gonna do a Red Out?
The more I think about this game - the more excited I get!
There is a TON of history with Cincinnati. Is the Big O being invited to come in for the game? Is the pre-game video highlights gonna showcase a lot of pics/video from the 50's and 60's of games with Cincinnati? Is Mike Williams coming back? Obviously Dick Versace will be around. I expect Paul Unruh, Eddy King and many-many more will be in attendance.
Help us out here DC... get on the horn with BParker and also email Dave Snell.
And hey... are we gonna do a Red Out?
The more I think about this game - the more excited I get!
The Big O is at all our home games and was at the Big East tournament where he was honored for a game in which he scored 56 at Madison Square Garden. The opponent was Seton Hall and I believe their whole team only scored 54. It was a scoring record for any player, college or pro, at the Garden. I don't know if he will be at this game.
We have long stretches where we only play one big at the center position. Our starter there is Matt Salley, a 6'7 post player. Decent defender on the ball, but if he gets backed down by a bigger player there isn't much he can do. He plays hard, but is limited especially at center in my opinion. Other than him we are now getting a lot of minutes from a JUCO junior named Rashad Austin. He's no taller than Salley, but quite a bit stronger, and has a bigger body. I think he's also a little more athletic, and every once in a while we see both on the floor at the same time. Problem is foul trouble, so many of our minutes at the 4 position are played by Theron Wilson, who's a (generous) 6'5 small forward. Theron's a very good athlete and excellent player, so he does his best, but is very undersized in the paint.
Guard-wise, Bradley is very strong, though we've had some injury problems. Daniel Ruffin is a 5'10 senior point guard, who early in the season was making top 5 lists nationally, but missed 9 games (I think it was 9) in the middle of the season with a sports hernia. He's extremely quick, a very good shooter, and an excellent ball-handler. Jeremy Crouch is a 6'5 senior shooting guard. He's deadly from the 3 and has set all of our school records in that category (last year tied for national lead at 50% 3 pt pct). Andrew Warren is usually the other starter but he broke his hand several weeks ago and missed the end of our season. This game might be his first back as he's returned to full practice now. Andrew's a 6'6 sophomore shooting guard who's very long and a matchup problem when he drives or shoots. Something about his jumper seems to mean he gets fouled a lot when taking 3pt shots. The other guard who plays a lot of minutes is Sam Maniscalco, a 6' freshman point guard. He's a good young player who has some good offensive skills, has developed his D, and plays very smart for the most part.
Guard-wise, Bradley is very strong, though we've had some injury problems. Daniel Ruffin is a 5'10 senior point guard, who early in the season was making top 5 lists nationally, but missed 9 games (I think it was 9) in the middle of the season with a sports hernia. He's extremely quick, a very good shooter, and an excellent ball-handler. Jeremy Crouch is a 6'5 senior shooting guard. He's deadly from the 3 and has set all of our school records in that category (last year tied for national lead at 50% 3 pt pct). Andrew Warren is usually the other starter but he broke his hand several weeks ago and missed the end of our season. This game might be his first back as he's returned to full practice now. Andrew's a 6'6 sophomore shooting guard who's very long and a matchup problem when he drives or shoots. Something about his jumper seems to mean he gets fouled a lot when taking 3pt shots. The other guard who plays a lot of minutes is Sam Maniscalco, a 6' freshman point guard. He's a good young player who has some good offensive skills, has developed his D, and plays very smart for the most part.
Dallas Brave
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The teams should bring Oscar and Hersey to the Wednesday game for a half-time ceremony.
There isn't much time to properly promote this game. The BU people, and John Searby do a prety good job.
It may be that the CBI has specific rules about promotions. I know the NIT does. They limit a lot of what home teams can do to promote themselves, they prohibit a lot of cheerleader activity, they prohibit throwing things into the c rowd!
Sounds like it should be a good matchup. Now we just need to see which UC team shows up. We have been very inconsistent. One day we can beat Louisville or Pitt on their court, the next game we are losing to DePaul or Providence. They played well in their last game in the Big East tourney against Pitt. Well, Vaughn did at least. He dropped 30 on them and went a run in the second half where he scored 20 points before another Bearcat scored.
Every game should be a red out.
MacabreMob
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I agree... but didn't we do a white-out for the Providence game last year?
Some of the UC fans are REALLY unhappy about this whole thing...
Quoted from a blog..."This is just so unbelievably exciting! Who would have ever guessed that after we had a run of MANY consecutive REAL tournament appearances that we would appear in this gutter tournament? Playing against Bradley and possibly Brown. After that, maybe we can play Big Girls State University again or maybe Coppin State. Oh, that's right, even 20 loss Coppin State is in the REAL tournament. Happy UC fans. Or is it - Happy, UC fans??"
I myself am excited and don't see anything wrong with a 3rd tounament...it's better than the season just being over.
Quoted from a blog..."This is just so unbelievably exciting! Who would have ever guessed that after we had a run of MANY consecutive REAL tournament appearances that we would appear in this gutter tournament? Playing against Bradley and possibly Brown. After that, maybe we can play Big Girls State University again or maybe Coppin State. Oh, that's right, even 20 loss Coppin State is in the REAL tournament. Happy UC fans. Or is it - Happy, UC fans??"
I myself am excited and don't see anything wrong with a 3rd tounament...it's better than the season just being over.
SUb...just having some fun with ya. A few years ago when BU went to the dance we were matched up against Kansas. SOME of their fans came to our board talkin alot of smack. One rather hilarious post was centered around a particular players dunking skills complete with a video to further impress us......needless to say we were all just awestruck as BU had no one that was capable of such athletic feats.
Well after disposing of KU in the first round we got a little more of the same talk from Pitt fans.......
Not putting your comments in the same class as those of course. Look forward to seeing Vaughn...sounds like a good player. Any team that can hang with Pitt should be a formidable foe..
I know exactly what blog that came from. The people that post there do not represent most of our fanbase. They are the bandwagon fans and the ones who are still pissed about Huggins firing. Go to the ncaabbs board that is linked in the beginning of this thread to get a better prespective. Most of us are happy that the team is getting a chance to extend the season.
Our team has 0 scholarship players with more than 1 year of D-1 experience coming into this season. Any chance they get to play and improve is a good deal.
We beat them one of the three times we played Pitt this year. The other 2 games were very close.
Vaughn is a blast to watch, even if you are rooting against UC. The fact that he is only a sophomore really bugs the rest of the Big East. If you remember Steve Logan, he reminds a lot of Bearcat fans of him.