Your Cincinnati Bearcats open the 2021-2022 basketball season tonight playing host to the Evansville Purple Aces.
Let’s have a quick look at the opposition in Wes Miller’s debut as Bearcats coach.
Todd Lickliter’s Purple Aces are on the upward path. A couple years out from a winless campaign in the MVC, this is a veteran team (5 seniors) led by a legitimate program building head coach. Lickliter had a lot of success at Butler before Brad Stevens took over. He struggled a bit at Iowa.
Last season, a 9-16 Evansville team liked to shoot from the perimeter.