I planned on going last night with a friend but couldn’t due to being busy. I was very happy to hear about NKU winning! 
 

My friend who went is a UC fan and he said that the final score didn’t indicate how dominant NKU was over them the whole game. Very nice win for NKU!

28 minutes ago, hrcarrier said:

I planned on going last night with a friend but couldn’t due to being busy. I was very happy to hear about NKU winning! 
 

My friend who went is a UC fan and he said that the final score didn’t indicate how dominant NKU was over them the whole game. Very nice win for NKU!

My feeling are your friend is being very generous.  It was a close game most of the way, both teams shared the lead, neither team could break away.  I kept waiting for either team to go on a run, never happened.  NKY did widen the gap the last three minutes of the game.

4 minutes ago, 4 Quarters said:

My feeling are your friend is being very generous.  It was a close game most of the way, both teams shared the lead, neither team could break away.  I kept waiting for either team to go on a run, never happened.  NKY did widen the gap the last three minutes of the game.

Or mad because of the loss.

UC was without their best perimeter defender (John Newman) and 6'6 wing Dan Skillings which made them extremely small on the perimeter at both ends. Vinson and Warrick took advantage of this and pretty much bullied their way to the rim the entire game.

Pathetic and embarrassing showing by UC in the second half...4-29 from the field and 11 points. NKU was extremely aggressive in their match up zone when the ball got to the paint, but that's no excuse to not go up strong and finish through contact.

I'm not going to overreact to one early season loss, but this team has a lot to figure out before meeting Arizona Monday night in Maui. 

 

2 hours ago, Walter said:

UC was without their best perimeter defender (John Newman) and 6'6 wing Dan Skillings which made them extremely small on the perimeter at both ends. Vinson and Warrick took advantage of this and pretty much bullied their way to the rim the entire game.

Pathetic and embarrassing showing by UC in the second half...4-29 from the field and 11 points. NKU was extremely aggressive in their match up zone when the ball got to the paint, but that's no excuse to not go up strong and finish through contact.

I'm not going to overreact to one early season loss, but this team has a lot to figure out before meeting Arizona Monday night in Maui. 

 

This team will be trying to figure out things all winter, or until they get some players.

Some were surprised Cincinnati played at Northern Kentucky. I don't know this but I'm assuming it is part of the agreement that had Cincinnati playing home games at NKU when their arena was being renovated a few years back. Am I correct?

Warrick and Vinson are absolute steals for NKU. 

41 minutes ago, gchs_uk9 said:

Some were surprised Cincinnati played at Northern Kentucky. I don't know this but I'm assuming it is part of the agreement that had Cincinnati playing home games at NKU when their arena was being renovated a few years back. Am I correct?

I'm thinking you're correct, as I remember NKY has to go to UC twice.

2 minutes ago, I gotta go to work said:

Warrick and Vinson are absolute steals for NKU. 

This is true, I think both would have problems at a higher level.  However, they could have chosen many other mid major programs.

10 hours ago, gchs_uk9 said:

Some were surprised Cincinnati played at Northern Kentucky. I don't know this but I'm assuming it is part of the agreement that had Cincinnati playing home games at NKU when their arena was being renovated a few years back. Am I correct?

You are correct.

The original deal had UC coming to NKU for either 2020 or 2021, I can't remember, but want to say it was probably 2021.  But with COVID, they pushed it back.

15 hours ago, 4 Quarters said:

This team will be trying to figure out things all winter, or until they get some players.

The roster is in really bad shape right now.... From  2018-2021 , only 4 players remain from the 4 recruiting classes brought in. 

Hard to develop an identity and consistency when there has been that much turnover between 3 head coaches. Expectations are to win now, but I think we need to be patient with Wes and his staff and allow them to build this roster to fit what they want that identity to be. We saw it with the 22 class with Skillings and Reed. And the 23 class is off to a good start with two top 50 players in Griffith and Jizzle James.

Wes will need to land a few high level transfers in the off season to accelerate the transition to the Big 12. Minimum 4 and potentially 7 (I think....covid years still have me unsure of eligibility) roster spots to fill at the end of the season. 

 

1 hour ago, Walter said:

The roster is in really bad shape right now.... From  2018-2021 , only 4 players remain from the 4 recruiting classes brought in. 

Hard to develop an identity and consistency when there has been that much turnover between 3 head coaches. Expectations are to win now, but I think we need to be patient with Wes and his staff and allow them to build this roster to fit what they want that identity to be. We saw it with the 22 class with Skillings and Reed. And the 23 class is off to a good start with two top 50 players in Griffith and Jizzle James.

Wes will need to land a few high level transfers in the off season to accelerate the transition to the Big 12. Minimum 4 and potentially 7 (I think....covid years still have me unsure of eligibility) roster spots to fill at the end of the season. 

 

Yeah, looks like we're talking about the team.

18 hours ago, 4 Quarters said:

This is true, I think both would have problems at a higher level.  However, they could have chosen many other mid major programs.

Both could play at UC, are they high major?

12 minutes ago, Jack of all Trades said:

Both could play at UC, are they high major?

At points in the past, yes, UC was a high major program.  Currently you might classify them high major, but for the last several years they have not preformed at that level.

20 hours ago, 4 Quarters said:

At points in the past, yes, UC was a high major program.  Currently you might classify them high major, but for the last several years they have not preformed at that level.

I think the biggest problem has been consistency. They beat Big 10 champ Illinois by 20 last year on a neutral floor then lost by 6 to a top 15 Arkansas team (Arkansas finished the game on a 7-0 run in the final 1:37 to win).

Followed that up with a home loss to Monmouth. 

15-6 heading in to February then lost 8 of 10 to end the season. 

This season... Look really good at both ends through the first 3 games then lose to NKU and look like a completely different team for the final 20 minutes in the loss.