The Cincinnati Bearcats went on the road to face the Tulsa Golden Hurricane. The Bearcats lost their last road game which happened to be Saturday at ECU. Most didn’t expect them to lose that game, but turnovers, hot ECU shooting and bad shooting from the foul line did the good guys in. Would they be able to get back on the winning side of things away from Fifth Third Arena?
Well everything started pretty well for the Bearcats, but after a double technical was called on Jarron Cumberland and Daquan Jeffries and then a jumper was hit by Keith Williams to put UC up 21-11, but after that it turned into the Tulsa show as they took a 28-26 lead into halftime. Yep, if you are keeping dams that is a 17-6 run to finish the last 8:28 of the half. Even being down two, the strong halves from Williams and Trevon Scott kept them afloat with a sick Justin Jenifer and Cumberland sattled with two fouls. Williams had 12 points and Scott had eight points.
In the second half the game went back and forth most of the half, but late in the half Tulsa had a firm grip on a six point lead with 1:16 left in the half. Cane Broome made a cold blooded three to cut the lead in half. After a huge stop Broome made a nice floater in the lane to get within one. After a Scott steal, Broome missed a pull up three, the miss was secured by Jeriah Horne, but he split his free throws only giving Tulsa two point lead with 10 seconds left. Cumberland drove down the lane and got fouled, with about five seconds left Cumberland got the ball and was double team so he kicked it out to Broome who pump faked and took a step in to make a game tying two pointer with 1.2 seconds left (the play was reviewed, to me it looked like a three, but hey). Broome scored the last 12 Bearcats points and scored all of his 16 points in the second half. 58-58 they headed to overtime.
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Overtime, was the Cumberland show as he scored six points and had two huge assists one to Trevor Moore for a huge three and the other to Scott for a nice layup. He also got a huge charge call on Jeffries to foul out the Tulsa player. Even with the up and down showing the Bearcats did enough to steal a conference game on the road. It wasn’t pretty, but the job got done.
Tulsa shot 62% from three and won the rebounding battle 36-33, but had 22 turnovers to the Bearcats 12. Cumberland finished with 14 points and four assists. Broome finished with 16 points and six assists. Williams fouled out, but finished with 14 points. Scott had 12 points and nine rebounds. Moore had a sneaky nine points.
Now the Bearcats are now 13-3 overall and 2-1 in the AAC. They will return home to face UConn on Saturday at 8 pm.
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