Cincinnati Bearcats NCAA Basketball News

Sporting News' Mike DeCourcy analyzes the buzz entering the 2009-2010 college basketball season, which begins Monday night.

One man's opinion on the top area sports stories from last week: The Skinny: Granted it was just NAIA Campbellsville and Division II Clarion , but the highly anticipated debut of new head coach John Calipari's team at Kentucky didn't disappoint as the Wildcats outscored the two opponents 191-90, first holding Campbellsville to 21.1 percent ...

Darnell Wilks and the no-longer-undermanned Cincinnati Bearcats shook off an early second half rut to pull away from Division II Saginaw Valley State, 86-58, in the first exhibition game of the 2009-10 season in front of over 6,000 excited fans at 5th Third Arena.

The NCAA has cleared Indiana freshman Bawa Muniru and Cincinnati freshman Lance Stephenson to play basketball this season.

University of Cincinnati freshman men's basketball player Lance Stephenson has been certified by the NCAA and can begin competing immediately beginning with tonight's exhibition game vs.

Quarterback Tony Pike, who has missed the last two games for fourth-ranked Cincinnati with an injured left forearm, could return Saturday when the Bearcats host UConn .

The Big East underwent an incredible amount of plastic surgery during the offseason after the majority of the league's best players graduated or left to play professional basketball.

When you choose to play college basketball in your hometown, as former Withrow High School star Yancy Gates did, you open yourself up to all sorts of advice from those who have watched you play for years and think they know what you should be doing.

One man's opinion on the top five local sports from this past week: The Skinny: Chances are in women's basketball that no team can topple preseason unanimous No.

It's been a while since a top ten team came to the Dome. The stage is set for the best team in the Big East to take on Syracuse this weekend in the Carrier Dome.

Mountain State coach Bob Bolen congratulated Alvin Mitchell after the Cougars' 112-82 win over Ohio Valley Thursday night.

The beast sleeps, at least at the start of the 2009-10 college basketball season.

The senior season for team captain Nick Aldridge started out on fire. Aldridge dropped 40 points on the Senators Tuesday night.

The best defensive player on the Syracuse University football team may have a more serious injury than he let onto after the team's victory over Akron Saturday night.

CINCINNATI a ' University of Cincinnati senior wide receiver Mardy Gilyard was named one of 10 semifinalists for the 2009 Biletnikoff Award, the Tallahassee Quarterback Club Foundation Announced.

Well Friar fans, everyone has us right where we wanna be - UNDER THE RADAR!A The coaches' made their annual pre-season picks, and the results are not going to shock anyone.A A A Nova, WV, and UCONN got some 1st place votes, and the usual suspects end up at the bottom.

UC freshman Lance Stephenson was named preseason rookie of the year and the Bearcats were voted to finish seventh in the Big East this season.

This Cougar team may have some similar faces with the likes of Marcus Hunter and team Captains Andrew Lee and Nick Aldridge however ita s the new players that should make a big impact.

NEW YORK For the first time since joining the BIG EAST Conference in 2005-06, the University of Cincinnati was picked to finish in the upper division of the league in the preseason poll being selected seventh by the coaches.

Last season, being at the top of the Big East meant being at top of the national rankings.