ESPN's Joe Lunardi has the Bearcats pegged as a No. 8 seed for the 2017 NCAA Tournament.
This is June.
Perhaps there is still a whole nine months until we drink in the sweet syrup of March Madness, but college basketball junkies never tire of looking at brackets, projected or otherwise. ESPN's Joe Lunardi knows all about those brackets and in his first look at the 2017 NCAA Tournament, he has Cincinnati as a No. 8 seed in the West region. If Lunardi's predictions somehow hold up, the Bearcats would play the Dayton Flyers out of the Atlantic 10 Conference.