TicketsCINCINNATI -- The Cincinnati men's basketball team will play its final regular-season road game Sunday when it heads to Memphis for a 2 p.m. ET showdown.
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Cincinnati withstood Temple's 7-0, regulation-ending run to win 88-83 in overtime, its second extra-session of the last five games. Landers Nolley's ninth 20-point game included scoring nine of UC's first 11 points in OT, going 4-for-4 from the field overall. Freshman Dan Skillings (14.2 mpg) also scored a career-high 15 points, going 6-8 from the field and 3-4 from deep. It was his third double-figure scoring game and came after back-to-back scoreless appearances. UC also reversed its fortunes from a minus-18 rebounding performance in its first Temple matchup to win this one, 35-29, improving to 16-1 when winning the boards.
Cincinnati went 28-for-30 (93.3 percent) at the foul line, marking its highest clip on 20-plus attempts since at least the 2010-11 season. David DeJulius added seven assists to maintain his AAC-play lead of 6.9 per game. His 14-straight games of 5-plus assists leads the nation, and his 5.2 per game are UC's most since Steve Logan's consensus First-Team All-American season in 2001-02. The fifth-year senior has also raised his three-point percentage nine points each year at UC and is a league-best 91.8 percent (45-49) from the foul line in AAC play.
Viktor Lakhin (six double-doubles) also returned after a three-game absence and scored 10 points in 19 minutes. He is 12th nationally with a 62.4 FG%. Cincinnati is nine treys from matching the school record set a year ago. Eighteen of UC's 19 wins have come when leading at the half as well. The Bearcats rank 22nd with 10.6 turnovers per game, back-to-back years in the top-30 after 267 and 289 in the years prior.
SERIES HISTORY
Cincinnati's 47-38 all-time mark includes an 11-7 record in AAC play.
These two schools were charter members of the Metro (1975-91), Great Midwest (1991-95) and Conference USA (1995) before the Bearcats joined the Big East from 2005-13.
These two teams played each other four times in the 1991-92 season, with UC defeating Penny Hardaway and the Tigers in all of them. The last of those was in the Elite Eight in Kansas City's Kemper Arena. UC won 88-57 behind the late Herb Jones' 23 points and 22 more from Nick Van Exel.
Nolley is squaring off against his former team for the second time. He collected 13 points and six rebounds in his last UC matchup last year after playing 31 minutes off the bench in the first one (seven points, five boards). He started 43 games over two seasons, averaging 11.5 ppg. His last game in the FedExForum was a 32-minute start with 11 points as the Tigers defeated No. 18 Memphis, 75-61.
UC fell 75-68 when the two teams played on Jan. 22, and the home crowd was slightly limited by a sudden severe snowfall. UC was down 42-32 at the half and tied it at 50 by the 12-minute mark on back-to-back Jeremiah Davenport threes, but Memphis' ensuing 9-1 run was too much to overcome. Viktor Lakhin posted a career-high 22 points (11-14 FG) with 10 rebounds, one of his six double-doubles.
The last FedExForum battle (Jan. 9, 2022) between the teams was an instant classic, with the Tigers prevailing 87-80. The Bearcats' 16 three-pointers (30 attempts) were a FedExForum team-collegiate record and remain sixth in program history.
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Cincinnati withstood Temple's 7-0, regulation-ending run to win 88-83 in overtime, its second extra-session of the last five games. Landers Nolley's ninth 20-point game included scoring nine of UC's first 11 points in OT, going 4-for-4 from the field overall. Freshman Dan Skillings (14.2 mpg) also scored a career-high 15 points, going 6-8 from the field and 3-4 from deep. It was his third double-figure scoring game and came after back-to-back scoreless appearances. UC also reversed its fortunes from a minus-18 rebounding performance in its first Temple matchup to win this one, 35-29, improving to 16-1 when winning the boards.
Cincinnati went 28-for-30 (93.3 percent) at the foul line, marking its highest clip on 20-plus attempts since at least the 2010-11 season. David DeJulius added seven assists to maintain his AAC-play lead of 6.9 per game. His 14-straight games of 5-plus assists leads the nation, and his 5.2 per game are UC's most since Steve Logan's consensus First-Team All-American season in 2001-02. The fifth-year senior has also raised his three-point percentage nine points each year at UC and is a league-best 91.8 percent (45-49) from the foul line in AAC play.
Viktor Lakhin (six double-doubles) also returned after a three-game absence and scored 10 points in 19 minutes. He is 12th nationally with a 62.4 FG%. Cincinnati is nine treys from matching the school record set a year ago. Eighteen of UC's 19 wins have come when leading at the half as well. The Bearcats rank 22nd with 10.6 turnovers per game, back-to-back years in the top-30 after 267 and 289 in the years prior.
SERIES HISTORY
Cincinnati's 47-38 all-time mark includes an 11-7 record in AAC play.
These two schools were charter members of the Metro (1975-91), Great Midwest (1991-95) and Conference USA (1995) before the Bearcats joined the Big East from 2005-13.
These two teams played each other four times in the 1991-92 season, with UC defeating Penny Hardaway and the Tigers in all of them. The last of those was in the Elite Eight in Kansas City's Kemper Arena. UC won 88-57 behind the late Herb Jones' 23 points and 22 more from Nick Van Exel.
Nolley is squaring off against his former team for the second time. He collected 13 points and six rebounds in his last UC matchup last year after playing 31 minutes off the bench in the first one (seven points, five boards). He started 43 games over two seasons, averaging 11.5 ppg. His last game in the FedExForum was a 32-minute start with 11 points as the Tigers defeated No. 18 Memphis, 75-61.
UC fell 75-68 when the two teams played on Jan. 22, and the home crowd was slightly limited by a sudden severe snowfall. UC was down 42-32 at the half and tied it at 50 by the 12-minute mark on back-to-back Jeremiah Davenport threes, but Memphis' ensuing 9-1 run was too much to overcome. Viktor Lakhin posted a career-high 22 points (11-14 FG) with 10 rebounds, one of his six double-doubles.
The last FedExForum battle (Jan. 9, 2022) between the teams was an instant classic, with the Tigers prevailing 87-80. The Bearcats' 16 three-pointers (30 attempts) were a FedExForum team-collegiate record and remain sixth in program history.