Cincinnati Postgame Links 1/22/2011

This was no time to devise anything complicated, not with 17 turnovers already in the book for the University of Cincinnati and St. John’s playing a swarming defense.

So with 28 seconds left and UC trailing by one, UC coach Mick Cronin decided to keep it simple.

He called timeout and instructed his point guard, Cashmere Wright, to dump the ball to Yancy Gates in the low post.

Read more:
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20110122/SPT0101/301220046

St. John's date with No. 25 Cincinnati was a great opportunity and that fact was lost on no one.

Everyone knew it was the sort of big game a team in a fight for an NCAA Tournament invitation might ultimately be judged on: from the Red Storm coaches who huddled through an entire full timeout in the final minute and then called another to talk further, to the players who turned in 40 blistering minutes of defense, to the 5,602 that sold out Carnesecca Arena for the first time in nearly two years.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/college/2011/01/22/2011-01-22_st_johns_basketball_loses_to_no_25_cincinnati_5351_on_yancy_gates_3point_play_in.html#ixzz1Bq3WWw4b

A quick take on St. John's 53-51 loss to Cincinnati on Saturday afternoon at Carnesecca Arena in Queens:

WHAT IT MEANS: St. John's falls to 11-7, and 4-4 in the Big East, after a crushing defeat to a team it will quite possibly sit alongside on the bubble come March. Cincinnati improves to 17-3, and 4-3 in the conference.

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http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/colleges/post/_/id/1433/rapid-reaction-cincinnati-53-st-johns-51