Selling disrespect

Mick Cronin doesn't think his team is getting enough credit nationally for what it's done in the Big East. Or maybe he likes the fact that he keeps hearing about what a bad loss it was for Louisville to lose to UC or that West Virginia had a bad shooting night, with no credit being given to UC's defense. As long as that kind of talk continues, he has something to sell to his players.

"I sell it to them all the time" Cronin said today. "The fact is that we've been playing as well as anybody in our league ouside of Georgetown since Jan. 1. Look at the teams we've beaten in the Big East and look at the quality wins we have. Find me another Big East team that’s beaten the quality of teams that we have. I tell our players that all the time. We’ve earned what we've gotten so far. Nothing's been handed to us from the day we all got here. But you hear a lot of announcers out there and a lot of things written the places we go about Cincinnati in a not so positive light, even when we have success."