A season of building excitement and exceeding expectations came to a swift and brutal close on Wednesday, as the Cincinnati Bearcats were eliminated from the American Athletic Conference tournament.
If the other shoe dropped on Tuesday then on Wednesday, it kicked Cincinnati squarely in the gut. Following a season of defying the odds, the Bearcats are going home pretty early, as they fell 7-6 to the UCF Knights on a walkoff home run in an elimination game of the American Athletic Conference tournament.
The loss is especially crushing because UC finally got it going (somewhat) with the lumber, banging out four runs in the first six innings to push the 'Cats up 4-0, while twice scratching out a run to take the lead once the game tightened up in the later innings.