Well Check, my Bearcats won another - now 18 & 1! Now, if my stocks would do so well. Perhaps next week the ELH well will by shut and the lost fish will be caught in the Winfield Ranch.
Bob
UC 55, SAINT LOUIS 44
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Bearcats start well, then lose interest
BY MIKE DeCOURCY
The Cincinnati Enquirer
There was a moment when this game was exciting, when it was full of possibility, when the Shoemaker Center crowd had reason to expect something spectacular from the UC Bearcats. Then, Melvin Levett fell to the floor.
“I just bought a new pair of shoes, and those things gave out on me,” Levett said. “I've got to take them back to the store.”
Levett's potential breakaway jam in the final minute turned instead into a traveling violation, which was a much more fitting punctuation to No.5 UC's 55-44 victory over pugnacious Saint Louis in a Conference USA game Saturday.
A capacity crowd of UC fans waited two hours for something to thrill them, but they came to the wrong game for that. With coach Charlie Spoonhour on the bench opposite Bob Huggins, an attractive game was going to happen only by accident.
“I tried to explain to them coming in that if we didn't jump on them,” Huggins said, “it was going to be like that.”
The things the Bearcats (18-1, 6-1) do well, the Billikens (9-10, 4-3) would not permit them to do. Forward Pete Mickeal scored twice on three-point plays, but was otherwise ineffective. Levett started 4-of-7 from the field, but finished 1-of-7. He led UC with 20 points thanks to 7-of-8 free throw shooting. |
