With his senior year looming, Kimoni Fitz has still yet to become a major impact player for the Cincinnati Bearcats. That’s not to say he’s been a bad player or one who has provided zero contributions. The opposite is true, in fact. Fitz has been a consistent force on the defensive side of the ball, playing in all 12 games in 2017, following 23 combined games in 2015 and 2016. The problem is, he needs to be a more effective and disruptive force.
Part of the problem is opportunity. Fitz was fighting for a starting spot all 2017 and never made much progress, with entrenched players like Cortez Broughton and Kevin Mouhon, as well as breakout performers like Marquise Copeland ahead of him in the rotation.