Forget about last winter.
Forget that the AAC has emerged as genuinely strong basketball league.
The Cincinnati Bearcats men’s basketball team is going to have an excellent season in 2021-2022.
They will be headed back to the NCAA Tournament.
New head coach Wes Miller is poised to bring the winning culture he cultivated at UNC-Greensboro over the past decade as well as a pedigree rooted in Roy Williams’ North Carolina Tarheels basketball program.
Some of the players that made Miller a winner in Greensboro have also made their way to Cincinnati. Seven-footer Hayden Koval is the most noteworthy among these additions, brining his 337 career blocked shots to the AAC.