The University of Cincinnati men's basketball team boarded a plane Tuesday night. The Bearcats' destination: Fort Worth, Texas.
Cincinnati (17-14, 7-11), as the eighth seed, will open the American Athletic Conference Tournament on Thursday against ninth-seeded East Carolina (15-14, 6-11).
The bad news: UC begins tournament play having lost five straight games, seven of its last eight and nine of its last 12.
The good news: Cincinnati begins tournament play against a team in ECU it beat twice in the regular season.
"You're going to break down every aspect of the last two games and every possession," first-year UC coach Wes Miller said.