Cincinnati Bearcats (3-1) vs Arizona Wildcats (3-0)
Lahaina Civic Center - Mon 11/21
11:30 PM EST
ESPN2
Arizona is favored by 9.5.

Figured it's worth it's own thread with Cincy playing three games in a row. Extremely tough bracket.

Oh I'll be thrilled with one win in this.

Game starting soon!

Cincy competing. Both teams are crashing boards hard early.

UC is playing hard and hanging in there but they are way overmatched inside.

the level of difficulty of shots that cincy is taking are all high...cincy made some shots early and the confidence went to high..tooo many shots of the dribble
the game is practically over at this point.. but alot of learning can be had

They stayed close for 14 minutes but it's getting ugly.

UC just doesn't have the players. They did well to get it back to 40-30 at halftime.

Felt like the three stopped falling for Cincy and it turned into a “now what?” offense. They can’t get in the paint well, Zona bigs are all over them everytime.

I know it’s not rocket science, but Cincy’s defense was ALOT better when the offense makes a bucket and they have enough time to set the press. Arizona didn’t seem to have trouble getting across half court, but it’s certainly affecting the half court offense afterwards.

Azuolas Tubelis is an impossible matchup for this team. Uc not having a center that's ready to play at this level really hurts two. It puts so much pressure on ddj, nolley and jd to make shots.

Azuolas Tubelis is maybe the most skilled big I've seen all year.

(11-22-2022 12:48 AM)bearcatmark Wrote:  Azuolas Tubelis is maybe the most skilled big I've seen all year.

Last year he played amazing for the entire regular season and then fell off at the pac12 tourney. By the time they played against Houston in the sweet 16, he was invisible and it was very concerning. Turned into Mathurin vs the world at the end.

I am hoping he continues playing like this. Dude is so fun to watch when he’s on.

My god, did I just jinx that landing on his back? Someone ban me now.

(11-22-2022 12:48 AM)bearcatmark Wrote:  Azuolas Tubelis is maybe the most skilled big I've seen all year.

i think just has touch around the rim and uc has no rim protection so he looks unstoppable...
ive seen him matched up against top quality big he tends to disappear.. atleast he did last year

every scoring big youve played all year has looked good

(11-22-2022 12:55 AM)pesik Wrote:  

(11-22-2022 12:48 AM)bearcatmark Wrote:  Azuolas Tubelis is maybe the most skilled big I've seen all year.

i think just has touch around the rim and uc has no rim protection so he looks unstoppable...
ive seen him matched up against top quality big he tends to disappear.. atleast he did last year

every scoring big youve played all year has looked good

This is very accurate.

cincinnat isi actually playing extremely well

Arizona is just a terrible a match up.... cincy with the way they are scoring today would beat alot of teams

That’s a lot of threes, please stop.

cincy when your having the best offensive half of the season.. but you ar still down 10 because your opponent is shooting 100% from the field

Down 9 because UC doesn't get back on defense and gives up too many easy baskets.

UC plays like this tomorrow, they beat Ohio St.

Arizona just makes zero sense for us matchup wise. Way too big, way too skilled.

No fault on the bearcats effort tonight. Roster just isn’t there.