TicketsCINCINNATI – The Cincinnati men’s basketball team travels to Atlanta for its Holiday Hoopsgiving matchup against Georgia at 2 p.m. Saturday at State Farm Arena. The game will be televised on ESPNU 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, allowing just 65.1 points per game defensively, ranks ninth nationally in adjusted defensive efficiency, per KenPom. Cincinnati also ranks second in the country in opponent offensive rebound percentage (22.8%), fifth in non-steal turnover percentage (11.5%), seventh in block percentage (17.4%), 25th in opponent effective field goal percentage (45.0%), 26th in 2-point percentage defense (45.1%) and 27th in turnover percentage (21.6%).
- Cincinnati has found itself playing with pace offensively and forcing its opponents to play more deliberately on the opposite end. The Bearcats sit 21st nationally in average offensive possession length at 15.1 seconds and their opponents are taking 17.6 seconds per possession on the other end, good for 254th-fastest nationally.
- The Bearcats rank second in the Big 12 in blocks (5.56), third in opponent field goal percentage (38.4%), fourth in scoring defense (65.1 ppg) and fourth in 3-pointers made per game (9.4).
- With just one starter and a pair of letterwinners returning from the Bearcats’ 2024-25 squad, Cincinnati retains only 13.3% of its scoring, 7l.6% of its rebounding and 17.5% of its assists from a season ago.
- Despite missing the NJIT and Eastern Michigan games with an injury, senior forward Baba Miller sees himself among the best nationally and in the Big 12. Miller is tied for 10th nationally and tops in the Big 12 in double-doubles with five, first nationally with 8.86 defensive rebounds per contest and sixth in the country and second in the conference with 11.1 total rebounds per game. He leads the nation in defensive rebounding percentage at 33.4%.
- The game will be the fourth all-time meeting between the Bearcats and Bulldogs, with Cincinnati winning two of the previous three. Cincinnati won the last matchup, 73-68, Nov. 13, 2021 at Fifth Third Arena. Junior wing Jeremiah Davenport scored 11 points and grabbed seven rebounds, while junior guard Mika Adams-Woods scored 11 points and dished a team-best five assists to lead a balanced Cincinnati offensive attack that saw 10 different Bearcats score. Senior guard David DeJulius also scored in double figures with 10 points.
- In his fourth year at the helm of the Bulldogs, Mike White has Georgia 8-1 on the year and receiving votes in the latest AP and USA Today/Coaches polls. The Bulldogs’ lone loss was a 97-74 overtime defeat to Clemson in Charleston and they are coming off a 107-73 drubbing of Florida State in Tallahassee Dec. 2. Georgia is leading the country in scoring offense at 99.9 points per game and plays at the second-fastest pace nationally at 14.0 seconds per possession. Sophomore guard Jeremiah Wilkinson leads the Bulldogs with 17.1 points per game, while junior guard Blue Cain pitches in with 15.4 points and 5.7 rebounds per contest.