BEARCATS ARE BACK! Xavier Still Alive. Cincinnati NHL team? NFL Super Bowl! | OTB presented by UDF

What a weekend of college basketball both locally and around the country… We start with the Cincinnati Bearcats! The Cats were coming off one of their worst losses of the season to a West Virginia team that had 13 losses against just seven wins. They were headed to 15th-ranked Texas Tech, who did not lose a home game two years ago and had not lost a home game in 15 tries this year. Back and forth they went and it was like a movie we’d seen before… Cincinnati would compete in the Big 12… Just well enough to lose, But not this time. After Tech took the lead in the final minute, Simas Lukosius hit a jumper with 30 seconds to go. John Newman III capped things off with a dunk, and the Bearcats shocked the Red Raiders 75-72. Aziz Bandaago was huge in this one with a double-double, his first since the win at BYU. UC stands at 15-7…4-5 in the Big 12. They won't play again until Saturday against number 4 Houston… that's a 4 o’clock tip at the fifth-third arena. The Cougars lost at Kansas over the weekend. Then there's Xavier. One week ago they lost 43 points to UConn. They bounced back to beat St.John's at home. Then on Saturday, Quincy Olivari delivered one of the greatest performances in school history in a 93-68 rout of Depaul to move one game over .500 in the Big East for the first time all season. Olivari scored 43 points on 12-20 shooting with seven three-pointers. He becomes the first muskie to score 40 in a game since Trayvon Bluitt against UC six years ago. Olivari added 10 rebounds. X plays 3 of its next four at home including Creighton and Seton Hall. What is going on in Kentucky? Cal’s guys can score… No donut about that, but the idea is to outscore the other team. They don’t because they don’t guard anybody. They’ve allowed 197 points in back-to-back losses at home to Florida and then number 5 Tennessee on Saturday. Wildcats plays at Vanderbilt tomorrow night. Armando Bacot says the acc goes thru him these days, and it ain't braggin if you’re telling the truth. The Carolina big man had 25 points and 10 rebounds in the Tarheels 93-84 win over Duke at the Deam Smith Center Saturday night. Carolina shot 50 percent from the field …hit 9 three-pointers to go to 18-4 on the year. Who watched the Pro Bowl flag football game yesterday? There were 55 thousand people at the game in Orlando…The NFC beat the AFC 64-59. Ja'marr Chase scored a couple of touchdowns and after one, he pulled off an ochocinco. Took over for an ESPN cameraman. The Washington Commanders win is the Las Vegas Raiders loss… Apparently, the Raiders were trying to hire former Cardinals head coach Cliff Kinsbury as their offensive coordinator. They dragged their feet on a contract, and the Commanders swooped in and they hired Kingsbury. Washington added Joe Whitt Junior as their new defensive coordinator. The Dolphins hired Anthony Weaver as their new Defensive Coordinator. Weaver was the defensive line coach and associate head coach in Baltimore last year. The Ravens have lost their defensive coordinator, defensive backs coach, and now defensive line coach in this off-season.