Official: SMU vs Cincy gamethread

[Arkpony]

Hold on and beat the spread

[Charleston Pony]

Cincy with 14 offensive boards on 32 missed shots; just have more energy and length than SMU

[Stallion]

Rebounds

Cincy 36-23

kind of reminds me of Wichita St at Moody where we played decent on the floor but lost rebounding by 20

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

It's not going to be fair for the people who just see the final score on the ticker because it was closer than that.

[Stallion]

Cincy with only 9 fouls all day-Jank gets Technical

[SMU Section F]

Cincy with only 9 fouls all day-Jank gets Technical

I think the refs have done a great job. (Maybe Jank disagrees... lol) I wish every game had this few PFs.

[SMU Section F]

Our guys are about as obviously gassed as I've ever seen a team... I think they gave it all they had.

I like to think we're beyond "moral victories", but I'm still proud of them.

[Stallion]

SMU has 17 fouls

[Arkpony]

Proud of the effort.

[Charleston Pony]

My guess is that Jank got T'd up because of the fouls discrepency and the fact that our guys have been getting mugged at times

[RI Stang]

Our guys are about as obviously gassed as I've ever seen a team... I think they gave it all they had.

I like to think we're beyond "moral victories", but I'm still proud of them.

100% this. Moral victories suck but absolutely could not ask any more from this group - they gave everything they had and then some. Not sure how many teams in the country could play Cincy as tough as we did today with only 7 scholarship guys, and none of those being far and away the two best.

[SMU Section F]

SMU has 17 fouls

That's still pretty low for a team physically outmatched as badly as we are... it's pretty normal for the smaller, tired team to have more fouls.

I get why Jank is mad, but I've seen some terrible officiating this season and I'd take these guys almost any day.

[Stallion]

Landrum managed to play 60+ minutes this Tournament without an assist. And he can't drive and score either

SMU's entire team had 7 assists

[SMU Section F]

Well, I absolutely hate our conference record, but at least we're >.500 overall.

Back in the Doherty days, I'd have killed for a single conference tournament win... so I guess there's that.

[Charleston Pony]

For the sake of the AAC, let's hope a much better Cincy team represents the conference in the NCAA Tourney. That was not a very good performance by the Bearcats today. Our guys defensive effort had something to do with it, but Cincy did not play with a lot of intensity today