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Didn't see this posted- Mick Cronin interview - Rothstein
 
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RE: Didn't see this posted- Mick Cronin interview - Rothstein
great interview and insights.

Cronin: It was the best road win I've ever been a part of. During the postgame stuff, all the Louisville people said that was the loudest and best atmosphere they've had since they opened the Yum Center in the second half of that game. To be able to withstand their unbelievable shot making and the tremendous crowd that they had is a tremendous achievement for my players. Coach Pitino wasn't happy after the game but he did call me Tuesday to congratulate me on our ranking. He told me to take a day to just think about where we are and where the program was when I first got here. We're obviously very close.

ALOT of positive national press on Cronin and UC this week . Cant hurt recruiting.
 
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RE: Didn't see this posted- Mick Cronin interview - Rothstein
Great interview - thanks for posting it.
 
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RE: Didn't see this posted- Mick Cronin interview - Rothstein
Great interview. Rothstein is very good at what he does. Manages to discuss basketball while being largely positive, sharp contrast to most analysts.
 
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RE: Didn't see this posted- Mick Cronin interview - Rothstein
Great article and now let's thank Mick by Filling the Shoe!
 
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RE: Didn't see this posted- Mick Cronin interview - Rothstein
Quote:1. Cincinnati has its highest ranking in 10 seasons. What makes the Bearcats so hard to beat?

Andy Katz: This team is led by men. The Bearcats have a presence about them. They don't wilt. They are as tough a team as any in the country. Experience matters.

Eamonn Brennan: They're not dissimilar from San Diego State: They guard like crazy, and, when games are close, they rely on capable senior guards to take things home. The Aztecs have Xavier Thames; Cincinnati has Sean Kilpatrick. There are limits here, but when you defend this well, you can mask them.

C.L. Brown: The Bearcats are so tough defensively. Take a guy like 6-foot-7 forward Titus Rubles. When he gets switched on a pick and has to defend a smaller guard, he can do it. Opponents find it hard to create a mismatch to their advantage. That's why Cincinnati is fourth nationally in scoring defense (56.7 points per game).

More good press.

http://espn.go.com/ncb/notebook/_/page/d...daily-word
 
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RE: Didn't see this posted- Mick Cronin interview - Rothstein
From CBS - Best game: No. 22 Connecticut at No. 7 Cincinnati (7 p.m., ESPN). The lone game on Thursday between two top-25 teams. Connecticut sits in fifth place in the AAC despite winning three in a row – but the Huskies could use another marquee win to help seeding come March. On the other side, Cincinnati continues to roll along. The Bearcats are 10-0 in the league and have won 14 games in a row. This one will come down to how well Shabazz Napier and his backcourt mates are shooting from the perimeter. The Huskies aren't going to be able to get anything on the interior, but they can stay in the game with the 3-ball. Defensively, they have to find ways to keep Cincinnati off the offensive glass.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketba...cincinnati
 
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SK #6 on CBS Sports Player of the Year list:

"6. Sean Kilpatrick (Cincinnati)
Why he's here: Kilpatrick has forever been overshadowed by other guards in his own league, most recently Shabazz Napier and Russ Smith. But the Cincinnati senior belongs in the same conversation. He's averaging 19.4 points and 4.2 rebounds for a team that's 21-2 overall, 10-0 in the American and ranked seventh nationally. He's a great leader with all of the intangibles coaches love."

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketba...-candidate
 
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It's been a great run. But the true test of this team is coming. I think we have a stretch to close out the season where we play Louisville, UCoNN, and Memphis 3 out of 4 games. That's as tough of a home stretch as we have had even in the Big East and probably up there with the toughest series of games that any team in the country will have.

It's fine to talk about toughness in December and January, but we all know it needs to show itself in February and March. It's going to be grueling and I believe these guys are up to the task.
 
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(02-06-2014 02:26 PM)Bearcatbdub Wrote:  It's been a great run. But the true test of this team is coming. I think we have a stretch to close out the season where we play Louisville, UCoNN, and Memphis 3 out of 4 games. That's as tough of a home stretch as we have had even in the Big East and probably up there with the toughest series of games that any team in the country will have.

It's fine to talk about toughness in December and January, but we all know it needs to show itself in February and March. It's going to be grueling and I believe these guys are up to the task.

Don't forget at SMU this weekend. I think that will be tough. They impressed me when they played UC up here and they destroyed Memphis at SMU.
 
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RE: Didn't see this posted- Mick Cronin interview - Rothstein
(02-06-2014 12:42 PM)Bearcat T Wrote:  Great article and now let's thank Mick by Filling the Shoe!

Agreed. And I'm surprised nobody quoted the first sentence:

Quote:Mick Cronin has quickly become one of college basketball's elite coaches.

I wish more people around our program understood this.

Anyway still more good press from Doc today here.

And Doc's piece featured some absolutely fantastic quotes from Grantland's College Basketball writer Ken Titus' Top 12 NCAA Power Rankings. Coming in at #8:

Quote:8. Cincinnati

In my preview of the AAC, I labeled Mick Cronin as my “coach on the hot seat.” This wasn’t because I thought Cronin’s job should be in jeopardy, but because I thought he faced a ton of pressure with Cincinnati moving from the best conference in the history of college basketball to a conference full of teams that were considered mid-majors a decade ago. Bob Huggins set a standard for Cincinnati basketball in the ’90s and early 2000s the Bearcats hadn’t been living up to in recent years. Now that Cronin’s team was going to play against lesser competition, I wondered if he could get the Bearcats back to national prominence or if he would continue putting decent-but-not-great teams on the floor.

I didn’t expect the answer to come quite this fast. Cronin not only has the Bearcats back in the national picture, he has actually helped Cincinnati become a legitimate national title threat and he’s my current pick for national coach of the year. The best part is that he’s doing it with a team that might be more Hugginsesque than any Cincinnati team Huggins coached. If you saw the first half of the Louisville game, you know what I’m talking about. It took the Cardinals — the defending national champions and a team that came into the contest averaging 83 points per game — 14 minutes to reach double-digit points, and the Bearcats held the Cardinals to a score of 20 in the first half. I’m still surprised ESPN didn’t cut the feed or at least flash a parental warning on the screen. Cincinnati’s defensive display was NSFW and could have permanently scarred any children who saw it.

Sure, Louisville scored 46 second-half points and erased a 17-point lead in the blink of an eye. But that was because Cincinnati kept turning the ball over, not because the Bearcats defense became slack. Here’s what matters about Cincinnati: It has some grown-ass men playing against a bunch of boys. The Bearcats are long, athletic, physical, experienced, versatile, and have a nasty edge that might make me soil myself if I had to play against them. I mean that. I have no idea how opposing players don’t just curl into the fetal position and start sucking their thumbs after five minutes of playing against Cincinnati’s defense. I’d probably fake an injury to avoid playing them. I’d pull $100 bills out of my sock and offer them to Bearcats players to lay off me. If all else failed, I’d just fall to my knees and start sobbing.

At some point, you have to figure that Cincinnati’s offensive struggles will cost them in a big game. For now, however, the Bearcats are riding a 14-game winning streak during which they won at Memphis and at Louisville. And while almost none of those wins would be classified as “pretty,” an ugly 21-2 beats the hell out of a pretty 15-8.

If that doesn't put a smile on your face and warm your UC heart, I don't know what will.....04-cheers
 
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Indeed. Pretty cool.
 
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(02-06-2014 02:56 PM)Bearhawkeye Wrote:  And Doc's piece featured some absolutely fantastic quotes from Grantland's College Basketball writer Ken Titus' Top 12 NCAA Power Rankings. Coming in at #8:

Mark Titus.
 
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(02-06-2014 03:29 PM)subflea Wrote:  
(02-06-2014 02:56 PM)Bearhawkeye Wrote:  And Doc's piece featured some absolutely fantastic quotes from Grantland's College Basketball writer Ken Titus' Top 12 NCAA Power Rankings. Coming in at #8:

Mark Titus.

oops thanks. I don't know where I got "Ken Titus" from? Maybe here but probably not.
 
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Bearhawkeye - great post! 01-ncaabbs

Thanks for sharing. Headed out to the game and I hope the boys can live up to the hype.
 
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(02-06-2014 03:59 PM)Ragpicker Wrote:  Bearhawkeye - great post! 01-ncaabbs

Thanks for sharing. Headed out to the game and I hope the boys can live up to the hype.

And they did live up to the hype.
 
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