Cincinnati Bearcats faced Merrimack and Stetson in two basketball games. Against Merrimack, Cincinnati struggled with turnovers but managed to secure a 65-49 victory. Lakhin and Dan Skillings were key players for the Bearcats. However, in the game against Stetson, Cincinnati faced a close match, ultimately winning 74-66. The game was marked by a back-and-forth battle with Stetson making runs to challenge Cincinnati's lead.
The 4-down sequence before half encapsulated one of the Bengals biggest flaws they must fix moving forward. They’ve got to fix their short-yardage game. Far too often over the last 3 seasons, they fail to get 1 yard. This needs to be addressed with high emphasis.
Bengals had second and short at 5. Three straight fails including a dropback on fourth down. That's the cherry on top to this half for Cincinnati.
Cincinnati 74-66 at the final media stop of the night. A little kerfuffle there as the break hit. Refs at the monitor. #Bearcats
Cincinnati leads 63-58 at the under 8 stop. Need stops in this segment or Stetson is taking this down to the wire. #Bearcats
Cincinnati 52-46 at the under 12 stop. Every time the #Bearcats start to gain some separation they get sloppy and let Stetson go on a mini run.
Cincinnati leads 43-40 at the first media stop of the half. Sloppy start is putting it kindly. #Bearcats
Cincinnati leads 32-28 at the final media stop of the half. Dan Skillings with 11 on 3-3 shooting from deep. #Bearcats
Cincinnati up 25-24 at the under 8 stop. Jamille Reynolds leads with 8. #Bearcats
Cincinnati leads 22-15 with 10:38 left in the half. Big run in that segment led by a pair of triples for Dan Skillings. #Bearcats
Cincinnati trails Stetson 12-6 at the first media stop of the night. DayDay Thomas with 4 early much to the delight of @Knickoson42 #Bearcats
Stetson with 10 points in the opening 3 minutes. Lead the #Bearcats 10-2 early.
Scenes from Cincinnati's 65-49 win over Merrimack. #Bearcats 📸 @reganyoakam https://t.co/FX4E48hdJF
UC up 56-44 at the final media stop of the night. #Bearcats
Cincinnati 49-40 at the under 8. Merrimack with a 23-22 lead in the 2nd half. Quite simply playing with zero confidence right now. #Bearcats
Cincinnati with a 45-30 lead at the under 12 stop #Bearcats
Cincinnati up 41-26 at the first media stop of the half. Lakhin leads all scorers with 14. #Bearcats
#Bearcats up 26-15 at the final media stop of the half. 11 made FGs but 10 turnovers.
Cincinnati up 23-9 at the under 8 stop. Lakhin leads with 8. Really should be much worse, but 9 turnovers in 13 minutes has been ugly. #Bearcats
#Bearcats lead 12-4 at the under 12 stop.
Cincinnati leads Merrimack 10-4 at the first media stop of the night. Lakhin with 6 early. #Bearcats
Merrimack is going to play 40 minutes of zone. So far Cincinnati has 2 turnovers on the first 2 possessions #Bearcats