For 13 seasons, former University of Cincinnati men's basketball coach Mick Cronin did little to add fuel to the already heated Bearcats' rivalry with foe Xavier University before the annual Crosstown Shootout.
While fellow former Cincinnati coach Bob Huggins and his players, especially Terry Nelson, embraced the tension in and around the Crosstown Shootout, Cronin, at least publicly, didn't want to bill the annual showdown as anything other than just another game.
Wes Miller isn't Cronin.
The first-year UC basketball coach on Wednesday wasted little time pushing his chips to the center of the table and going all in on the rivalry with the Musketeers, saying, “I’ll never sit here and say, ‘It’s just another game.