What about the Game, It's a BIG one

Last year when UC beat West Virginia the Bearcats were able to hold Bob Huggins to o points, but Mick Cronin was also scoreless in his teams win.

Enough with the coaches, neither of them will hit the winning shot Thursday night.    The Mountaineers come into the game in a much better position for the NCAA Tournament than UC is, that's why this is a must win game for the home team.

Coach Cronin knows that West Virginia is a very good basketball team, here is his view of the Mountaineers.

On Tuesday when we spoke with the team they were just about to look at film of their up coming opponent, but they already know what WVU is all about.

That's a look at the opponent in this very important game.    As for the degree of "importance", it must be big.  ESPN is sending the team of Brent Musburger and Bob Knight. Which leaves one very big question.  UC has only played Ohio State once in the past 50 years, how will Brent work the Buckeyes into the conversation?

Game Time:  7:30   TV:  ESPN   Radio:  WLW

Coach Cronin Talks About Coach Huggins

Before the Louisville game last week Mick Cronin said he is looking forward to the day that UC can play the Cardinals and West Virginia with the focus being on the game and not the coaches. Maybe next year, because that certainly won't be the case Thursday night.  When he met with the media Tuesday afternoon Coach Cronin addressed a number of topics about Bob Huggins return to Cincinnati.  One of which is the difficulty of following a man a popular as Huggins.

Coach Cronin left Cincinnati to take a job with Rick Pitino at Louisville.  Since then a question that always comes up is,  what kind of relationship does he have with his former head coach. 

Like most Bearcat fans Mick Cronin thought that Bob Huggins would always be the head coach at UC.  As a mater of fact he made a bet with Huggins on that subject and now it's time to pay up.

Notice how Coach Cronin said he made that bet with Huggins while he was the head coach at Murray State.  That was years after he left Cincinnati for Louisville.  That should help end the "relationship" question, that tells me that they do talk and keep up with each other.  Later today we will bring you more from our interview with former Bearcat John Meeker.   As a former player he sheds a pretty good light on the return of Coach Huggins as well as looking at this years team.

John Meeker, Loosing the Locker Room Works

This isn't the first time a UC tam has been locked out of their locker room and lost their "gear". Bob Huggins was known for using a similar motivational tactic with his teams when he was the head coach.  We caught up with former Bearcat, and fan favorite, John Meeker.  John remembers going through the same thing and said that it's not just a coaches trick, it works.

We will have more with this former Bearcat through out the week, including his thoughts on his old coach coming back to town.  John is currently working for Cincinnati Bell Technology Solutions as a Senior Account  Manager here in town.