Here it is, the best rivalry game in college basketball ready to be renewed on the first weekend in December of what has been the weirdest year in memory from both a sporting and overall sense. Both teams enter undefeated, although Xavier has played five games to UC’s one, and both harbor ambitions of picking up a first signature win which could hold immense value by the time March rolls around given the ever changing landscape of this season.
Cincinnati got their season under way earlier this week just before Xavier tipped off their fifth game. The Bearcats struggled for much of the game to put away a Lipscomb team that had just lost to Tulane before starting a 17-2 run with eight minutes left that would prevent the upset.