MBB Bearcats Beat Louisville

Some game. This was a tremendous "morale" victory - not moral victory.

UC needed a win like this.

I doubt this "means" anything. I don't think we'll win the Big East or even have a winning season, but things like this will help to pass the time while we return to prominence.

Big East foisted on its own petard

Not that anyone knows what a "petard" is anymore anyway, but Big East management has got to be -- or OUGHT to be -- regretting it's decision to push for South Florida to the Sun Bowl and Connecticut to the Muffler Bowl over the clearly superior Cincinnati Bearcats.

UC was clearly better down the stretch -- and importantly against tough competition.

UC beat five bowl-eligible teams this year, I believe (Oregon State, Miami, Rutgers, South Florida, Connecticut). Three were ranked at the time. South Florida only beat WV at home, and mopped up against lower Big East foes while losing to the rest of the Big East cream: UC, UConn, Rutgers.

And that was our premier team to send against Oregon? Is ANYONE surprised by USF's humiliation in the Sun Bowl ??

Is anyone surprised by UConn's humiliation in the Muffler Bowl ??

I'm not. Big East offiicals tampered and politicked to reward their favorites, and this is the result. UConn beaten. USF humiliated.

Maybe next year UC will be given its due -- finally -- by it's own conference.