Somewhere deep in the southeast between New Orleans and Atlanta earlier this week, Ron Hunter strolled into a Wendy’s with all the confidence in the world. Busing back to campus with the Georgia State basketball team right after Selection Sunday, the Panthers’ coach ordered them Baconators, crispy nuggets and Frostys. As they ate, he talked.
“Trust me, Cincinnati is not eating at Wendy’s,” he said he told his team. “They’re at Ruth’s Chris (Steakhouse). For you to eat at Ruth’s Chris, we’ve got to beat a team like that.”
All of a sudden, the Bearcats were being considered one of the big barons in college basketball.