Its rare that a team gets the type of opportunity that the Cincinnati Bearcats got this March. They won their conference tournament, earned a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament and then watched as its region in the bracket was beset with upsets. Those are just some of the many reasons that losing to Nevada in the round of 32 was so devastating. The road was paved to the Elite Eight. But the Bearcats broke down before they could get going.
Such a letdown makes it difficult to imagine that the Bearcats can be in such a position again, especially now that Gary Clark and Kyle Washington are gone.