NEW ORLEANS – For an hour on Saturday, it felt like Cincinnati basketball had turned a significant corner.
On the heels of thrashing UConn at home, after frustrating travel issues led to the team cramming into a prop plane that required two fuel stops and an early morning arrival, the Bearcats entered one of the smallest arenas in Division I college basketball at Tulane.
This had all the makings of a letdown.
But they jumped ahead by 11 points before halftime, with Keith Williams looking like the bonafide star many of us think he can be and a defense that held the Green Wave's cast of transfers to 38 percent shooting.