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Cincinnati Hosts Dayton for Twyman-Stokes Game Tuesday Night

by Brett Rybak

The Cincinnati men’s basketball team welcomes in-state foe Dayton for a 7 p.m. matchup Tuesday in the program’s Twyman-Stokes game at Fifth Third Arena. The contest will be streamed on ESPN+ and broadcast on 700 WLW and the TuneIn app.

Cincinnati Hosts Dayton for Twyman-Stokes Game Tuesday NightCincinnati Hosts Dayton for Twyman-Stokes Game Tuesday Night
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CINCINNATI – The Cincinnati men’s basketball team welcomes in-state foe Dayton for a 7 p.m. matchup Tuesday in the program’s Twyman-Stokes game at Fifth Third Arena. The contest will be streamed on ESPN+ and broadcast on 700 WLW and the TuneIn app.

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Bearcat Bits

  • The 2025-26 campaign marks the 125th season of competition for Cincinnati men’s basketball, and the Bearcats will commemorate the milestone with a year-long celebration honoring the program’s rich history, iconic players and cultural legacy. Cincinnati men’s basketball, which was named a top-10 program in college basketball history by the Associated Press, boasts 44 All-Americans, 41 conference titles, six Final Four appearances and back-to-back national championships across its history, which dates back to the 1901-02 season.
  • The game Tuesday will be the 2025-26 Twyman-Stokes Classic. The game spotlights the story that transcends the city and basketball as a whole. Rising NBA star Maurice Stokes, while playing for the Cincinnati Royals, suffered a life-changing injury at the end of the 1958 season that left him paralyzed and unable to speak. His teammate, Bearcats legend Jack Twyman, became his legal guardian at 23 to give him financial and physical support. After years of grassroots fundraising nationwide, NBA stars held out at the 1964 All-Star Game to get the players’ union recognized, largely in part after seeing what Stokes had gone through. Stokes died in 1970, and when Twyman passed in 2012, the Reverend Jesse Jackson helped lead a call to the NBA to establish the Twyman-Stokes Teammate of the Year award. A look back at last year’s inaugural announcement.
  • Cincinnati head coach Wes Miller is in his fifth season as the University of Cincinnati’s men’s basketball head coach, poised to take the Bearcats to the next level in their third year of the nation’s best basketball conference, the Big 12. The 42-year-old Miller already boasts 15 years of head coaching experience. He spent a decade at UNC Greensboro, posting five-straight 20-win seasons and appearances in the 2018 and 2021 NCAA Tournaments before taking the helm of the Bearcats. Miller boasts seven 20-win seasons (two at Cincinnati) and a 268-194 overall record. He has mentored 25 All-Conference players as a head coach, including six over his first four seasons at UC.
  • Baba Miller, a senior on the Cincinnati men’s basketball team, has been honored on the Big 12’s Starting Five for his play last week, the conference office announced Monday. Miller is joined on the Starting Five, which is new this season, by Arizona’s Koa Peat, Texas Tech’s Christian Anderson, BYU’s AJ Dybantsa and Kansas’ Darryn Peterson. Miller opened the season with 18 points and 10 boards in the Bearcats’ 94-63 victory over Western Carolina last Monday before tallying 24 points, 11 rebounds and three blocks on 8-of-9 from the field in a 74-64 win over Georgia State Friday night. He became the first Bearcat with consecutive double-doubles to open a season since Bobby Brannen in 1997-98.
  • Cincinnati’s six scholarship transfers (Jalen Celestine, Sencire Harris, Jalen Haynes, Kerr Kriisa, Baba Miller and Moustapha Thiam) come to Clifton averaging 80 career games played at the college level.
  • Cincinnati holds a 61-31 advantage in the all-time series with the Flyers, including a 38-12 lead at home. After an 11-game Bearcat win streak in the series from 1989-2001, Cincinnati holds a 5-4 lead over the last nine contests. In last year’s meeting, Daniel Skillings Jr. scored a game-high 17 points to lead No. 19-ranked Cincinnati to a 66-59 victory over No. 22-ranked Dayton Dec. 20 in the Simple Truth Hoops Classic presented by CareSource at Heritage Bank Center.
  • Led by ninth-year head coach Anthony Grant, Dayton is 2-0 on the year with wins over Canisius and UMBC. Senior guard Javon Bennett and sophomore forward Amaël L’Etang were named to the Atlantic 10 Preseason All-Conference team. Bennett paces the Flyers with 18 points and 4.5 assists per contest, while L’Etang averages 14 points and six boards per game.