2024-2025 Schedule

[GoBearcats31]

Home:
Howard
Xavier

Road:
Northern Kentucky
Georgia Tech
Villanova - Tuesday, December 3

Neutral
Dayton (Heritage Bank Center)

TBD:
Big 12 schedule (20)
OOC ???
OOC ???
OOC ???
OOC ???
OOC ???

Big 12 Tournament dates TBD but second week of March
Kansas City, Missouri

NCAA Tournament March 18-April 7
(first/second round games in Denver, Providence, Lexington, Wichita, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Raleigh and Seattle)

Notes:
- Howard is supposed to play at UC this year, per report last year https://collegehoops.today/rothstein...ashington-d-c/
- Xavier game presumably in December; would be nice to play these later
- UC agreed to a 3-year deal, including two games at NKU, as part of deal to utilize NKU's arena in 2017-18 (this game should be November 13, 2024 if they still plan to go there) https://gobearcats.com/news/2021/9/2...arting-in-2022
- Georgia Tech return game date TBD; assuming it is in November https://gobearcats.com/news/2023/8/1...on-nov-22.aspx
- UC to play at Villanova in the Big East-Big 12 Battle https://big12sports.com/news/2024/4/...announced.aspx
- UC press release for last year's Dayton game said it was a "one-year agreement with an option for a second year" https://gobearcats.com/news/2023/7/1...-downtown.aspx; Jon Rothstein now reporting UC and UD are working to finalize an agreement to play downtown again https://collegehoopstoday.net/rothst...t-next-season/
- Big 12 schedule should consist of 20 games this season, instead of 18 https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...18-women-games

[GoBearcats31]

Easiest way to 8-3 is win all 6 at home, and go 2-3 on the road. Not an easy task, and frankly not likely.

4 of the 6 home games left are against teams UC has already lost to: BYU, Utah, Baylor and Kansas State

2 of the 5 away games left are against Houston (#1 Ken Pom, #2 NET) and Iowa State (#5 Ken Pom, #7 NET)

Obviously if UC did some damage and put themselves in the discussion, they'd have more quality wins available in the Big 12 tourney. I guess let's start with WVU and go from there.

[longtimefan]

Easiest way to 8-3 is win all 6 at home, and go 2-3 on the road. Not an easy task, and frankly not likely.

[sedz]

Looking at the remaining schedule, we've got a total of 5.7 Wins Above Bubble (WAB) remaining. We're currently at -1.0 and need to be around 1.0 to get near the cut line. If we sweep the remaining games we'd be at 4.7 WAB. Each loss takes 1.0 off that.

With 11 games left I'd say:
8-3 or better = in
7-4 = bubble
6-5 = bubble out
5-6 or worse = no chance

[sedz]

St Bonaventure blasted Dayton by 22.

[sedz]

Xavier beats #35 UConn by 4 at home and drops 2 spots in NET. UC loses to #43 BYU by 28 on the road and drops 6 spots in NET.

The NET is weird.

Torvik's model predicted a 73-72 Xavier win and the score was 76-72, so they basically held steady, passed by Oregon St and UC San Diego who had bigger wins.

We probably didn't drop as much as expected because teams just below us like Penn St, Boise St, UC Irvine, and Nebraska also lost in the last couple days.

[Carthage World]

Suddenly that Xavier game looks like a quality resume win

Xavier beats #35 UConn by 4 at home and drops 2 spots in NET. UC loses to #43 BYU by 28 on the road and drops 6 spots in NET.

The NET is weird.

[GoBearcats31]

Suddenly that Xavier game looks like a quality resume win

[Carthage World]

Xavier chokes away a 16-point second half lead at MSG as St John's wins by 8 in OT and completes the regular season sweep.

[sedz]

https://x.com/bearcatbunch/status/18...A2NHZ_hNyS2mFg

https://x.com/bearcatbunch/status/18...A2NHZ_hNyS2mFg

Screenshot is from here: https://bracketologists.com/team/cincinnati-bearcats

[swilsonsp4]

Final: Georgetown 64, @ Nova 63

[GoBearcats31]

https://x.com/bearcatbunch/status/18...A2NHZ_hNyS2mFg

https://x.com/bearcatbunch/status/18...A2NHZ_hNyS2mFg

[Carthage World]

Xavier picked up its second straight big win today

Dayton avoided another loss with an alley oop from half court to win in OT

Georgia Tech continues to struggle

Dayton dropped 10 spots in NET (64 to 74) despite winning.

Maybe the biggest boost to our team sheet yesterday was Kansas St only losing by 10 at Kansas - hence boosting their NET ranking by 12 spots (132 to 120), keeping them as a Q2 loss for the time being.

[GoBearcats31]

Xavier picked up its second straight big win today

Dayton avoided another loss with an alley oop from half court to win in OT

Georgia Tech continues to struggle

[bearcatbret]

Creighton just knocked off UConn. Creighton has a kid that is shooting 98-percent free throws for the season. I know that this post is out of place but wanted to point out the free throw shooting.