A year ago I wrote a piece detailing the history of the Crosstown Shootout. I've coped it below, but with an update. With the rivalry matchup just days away, it only seems fitting to return to this piece, which will be updated each year and become a living document of sorts at Down the Drive for one of the best and certainly the most heated rivalries in college basketball.
Get your torches and pitchforks out. Prepare to go to war. It's us versus them. You are either with us or a no-good, yellow-bellied coward. It's Cincinnati versus Xavier and there is no game on the schedule that means more.