ABOUT CINCINNATI
• Cincinnati under second-year head coach John Brennan is off to a 2-1 start to the young season, with home victories over Lipscomb and Furman bookending a tough 77-69 loss to cross-town rival Xavier.
• Prior to the end of the COVID-19-shortened 2019-20 season, Cincinnati had just won a share of the AAC regular-season championship and was poised to make a run through the AAC Tournament and into the Big Dance.
• Through three games, the Bearcats have gotten the production they've needed from senior guard Keith Williams, who leads the team in scoring with 17.3 points per game. On Wednesday night against Furman, Williams took over, scoring 27 points, pulling in five boards and added two steals and a pair of blocks in the win.
• Like with Williams, UC looks for regular production from senior center Chris Vogt. In last season's contest with Tennessee, Vogt put in quality time in the paint, scoring 11 points on 5-of-8 shooting from the field. This year, he is the team's third-leading scorer with 9.3 points per contest and has been a nuisance on defense, totaling four blocks through three games.
• Cincinnati has also already seen a ton of production from junior David DeJulius. The Michigan transfer through three games is the team's second-leading scorer (10.3 ppg) and the team leader in both rebounding (6.7 rpg) and assists (5.0 apg).
• Cincinnati's student-run newspaper, The News Record, much like Tennessee's Daily Beacon, is an independently run newspaper that is editorially independent of the university, meaning that any student, regardless of major, is able to work and contribute for the publication.
