TicketsCINCINNATI – The Cincinnati men’s basketball team hosts Mount St. Mary’s at 6 p.m. Sunday at Fifth Third Arena. The contest will be streamed on ESPN+ and broadcast on 700 WLW and the TuneIn app.
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 won the only previous meeting against the Mountaineers, a 69-59 season-opening win at Fifth Third Arena Nov. 15, 2010. Sean Kilpatrick came off the bench to score 21 while Yancy Gates recorded a double-double with 15 points and 10 boards. The Bearcats forced 20 Mount St. Mary’s turnovers and limited the Mountaineers to 1-for-9 from deep in the win.
- Led by second-year head coach Donny Lind, Mount St. Mary’s is 1-2 on the year, picking up a 74-66 victory in their last game at Saint Francis (Pa.), after losses at West Virginia and against Bucknell. Junior forward Luke McEldon leads three Mountaineers averaging double figures, going for 11.7 points and 6.0 boards per game. Graduate forward Trey Deveaux and senior guard Arlandus Keyes average 11.0 points per game.