No matter what any head coach says, not every game is created equal. For the Cincinnati Bearcats men’s basketball team, the 2018-19 season is going to be chock full of extremely difficult, and therefore critical games. Much in the same way that NFL teams that come in first place one year must play tougher schedules the next, the Bearcats, who are the defending American Athletic Conference champs, are facing one of the most brutal schedules they’ve had in a while.
UC had only the 56th toughest schedule in the country last season, but this year that number should rocket up.