The Cincinnati Bearcats picked up yet another quality win for their future NCAA Tournament resume in the form of the VCU Rams 69-63.
Now, on the surface a now 5-5 team doesn’t look all that impressive. VCU certainly has name recognition but much of that was the aura of Shaka Smart, who’s now at Texas. But the Rams have a rather loaded non-conference schedule, ranked 81st in college basketball, that includes Duke, Wisconsin, Florida State, and Georgia Tech. Unfortunately, all of those were losses, but Duke was by eight, Wisconsin with seven seconds to play, and Florida State by five.