TicketsUC?s BIG EAST Schedule a BIG Challenge
Contact: Brian Teter
7/7/2005
CINCINNATI, Ohio ? The University of Cincinnati?s BIG EAST men?s basketball schedule will present a big challenge for the 2005-06 Bearcats.
UC will face 2003 national champion Syracuse, 2005 Final Four participant Louisville, and West Virginia, which narrowly missed a berth in last year?s Final Four, twice during the campaign on a home-and-home basis.
The Bearcats? home league schedule will also feature Villanova, a Sweet 16 team last season, Providence, Rutgers, and former Conference USA foes DePaul and South Florida. They join UC?s non-league home schedule of Memphis, Dayton, Miami (Ohio), Ohio University and Murray State.
UC will have road trips to 2004 national champion Connecticut, Pittsburgh, Seton Hall, Georgetown, and Marquette, in addition to Syracuse, Louisville and West Virginia, and will play non-conference road games at Xavier and Vanderbilt.
The BIG EAST will use a 16-game league schedule for the next two seasons. Teams will play home-and-home series against three ?mirror opponents? and face 10 other teams once. Each team will not play two schools.
UC?s mirror opponents will give the Bearcats six games against teams ranked in the Top 25 of last season?s final polls. Louisville finished No. 3 in the final ESPN/USA Today poll with West Virginia No. 12 and Syracuse No. 21. UC, which finished No. 25 in the final ESPN/USA Today poll, was joined in the Top 25 by Villanova at No. 13 and Connecticut at No. 17.
The Bearcats? BIG EAST schedule features 12 games against teams ranked in the Top 100 of the final RPI or Sagarin Index ratings, nine games against teams which finished in the Top 50.
UC men?s basketball season tickets, which include 19 games at Fifth Third Arena and one at U.S. Bank Arena, are currently on sale, and more than 10 percent of the season tickets available have been reduced in price since last year.
Tickets in Preferred Seating locations require a donation to the UC Athletic Team Scholarship Fund and the purchase of Bearcat football season tickets. Those basketball season tickets range in cost from $370-$425, plus the required donation as determined by seating location. Tickets located outside the Preferred Seating locations are available without a required donation at a cost of $291.
For information on Preferred Seating locations, contact the Athletic Development Office at 513-556-4884. For all other Bearcat season ticket information, contact the Athletic Ticket Office at 513-556-CATS.