Why not UC as an NCAA at-large team?

Mick Cronin is beginning to state his case for UC to receive consideration as an NCAA Tournament team. His contention is that if the Bearcats finish sixth and the Big East is going to get seven or eight teams in the tournament, why shouldn't UC be one of them based on its Big East performance? He says those bad early-season losses should be discounted because UC was forced to play those games without point guard Jamual Warren.

“If we had had Jamual we would have been undefeated in November and we would have won some games in December that we didn’t win,” Cronin said. “It’s bothersome to me that as you watch all the so-called experts talk about teams, they say Cincinnati had some bad early-season losses, but it’s like nobody knows why.”

Does he really believe the NCAA will take that into consideration?

“They sure took it into consideration when Kenyon Martin got hurt and when Armein Kirkland got hurt,” Cronin said. “If it’s good for the goose, it’s good for the gander. It should be the same rules. It should be the same logic, the same reasoning.”