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Sunday matinee showdown for UC, Memphis in AAC basketball

Sunday looms large for Cincinnati sports fans, particularly if their favorite teams include cat mascots.

Prior to the Bengals doing business in the NFL playoffs in Buffalo, the Bearcats will tangle with a group of Tigers from Memphis in their first home game in 11 days.

In that span, they have won three consecutive American Athletic Conference games for the first time since January of last year. While not perfect, they played one of their better games of the season Wednesday night, defeating USF by 17 points in Tampa. A week prior, the Bulls traveled to Houston and lost to Kelvin Sampson's No.