Cincinnati lost to Houston last night in pretty emphatic fashion 69-56, which was a bit of a drag. It didn’t necessarily kill any hope for this team to make the NCAA Tournament. They were hovering around a 9-10 seed 24 hours ago and dropped to the 10-11 range now. So the loss didn’t bounce the Bearcats from the Big Dance but it simply put more pressure on them to beat SMU at home on Sunday and win a game or two in the conference tournament at the end of next week.
However, it was the manner in which UC lost that was dejecting.