There’s something special about this Cincinnati Bearcats team. The Bearcats just won their eighth straight game and before that escaped a 66-64 slugfest against SMU, the second best team in the conference. KenPom has the Bearcats favored to win every game the rest of the season except their rematch on the road against SMU on Feb. 12. It’s not just that they are favored, it’s that they’re easily favored. The Bearcats have a better than 68 percent chance of winning 14 of the remaining 15 games on their schedule.
Part of that has to do with how weak the bottom half of the American Athletic Conference has turned out to be this year.