The deadline to renew Cincinnati basketball season tickets for the Bearcats’ upcoming 2016-17 campaign is Monday, August 15. There happens to be one small problem with that deadline, though: the team still hasn’t released a schedule of any kind. With the season starting in about 90 days, that’s kind of a problem. It’s tough to ask people to commit to buy something when you haven’t told them exactly what they’re buying. It’s a trust fall of sorts, except that you have to pay the UC athletic department money and hope they catch you.
In years past, UC has at least released the non-conference schedule, including exact dates, before season ticket renewals were due.