The University of Cincinnati men's basketball team had Thursday off. It was a day for the Bearcats to "decompress," graduate guard David DeJulius said.
Cincinnati on Wednesday scored just 11 points in the second half of a 64-51 loss at Northern Kentucky. DeJulius, the reigning American Athletic Conference Player of the Week, managed just nine points in the defeat, well below his 21.3 points-per-game average through the first three games that helped him earn the honor.
It was the Bearcats' first loss of the season and their first-ever defeat to their neighbors from across the Ohio River (8-1).