In what resembled an old-school, Cronin-ball, pre-2013 Big East rock fight, the Cincinnati Bearcats gutted out a key win on the road at #21 Iowa State, snapping the Cyclones’ 37-game non-conference winning streak at venerable Hilton Coliseum and giving the Bearcats a nice feather in their tournament resume cap.
In what has been proclaimed as a new era of Mick Cronin basketball that was supposed to be filled with scoring and uptempo play (and perhaps be somewhat devoid of the lockdown defense we’ve come to expect from from UC), the Bearcats won the old way on Thursday: defense and rebounding.