🐐 Oscar Robertson after a workout at UC in 1958. He told reporters he kept a basketball in his dorm room “cause sometimes I just feel like dribbling.”
November 18, 2006 | Mark Dantonio and the Bearcats take down #7 Rutgers. [photos: gobearcats.com]
The world’s greatest Skyline location opened in 1966. This ad, perfect in every way, ran in the UC yearbook a year later.
Semi-annual ‘90s (pre-Jordan) uniform appreciation post. [via Getty Images - bonus ‘96 Paul Pierce on slide 2]
Bearcat fans leave Schmidlapp Gymnasium (now Dieterle Vocal Arts Center) overlooking the south end zone of Nippert Stadium following a basketball game during the 1926-27 season.
Nippert Stadium from the windows of TUC, 1947.
83 days to Bearcat football.
The Shoemaker Center, back when it was brand new—1989.
85 days to Bearcat football.
My guys play their first NCAA Tournament game since 1974 tonight. 10pm on ESPNU from Corvallis.
@j.n.e.iii checks in to the NBA Finals. (This also means one of Cronin’s Cincinnati Bearcats saw the court in the Finals before one of Calipari’s Kentucky Wildcats did. Beat ‘em by 3.7 seconds. 😉)
September 19, 1999 | Students storm the field as the Bearcats stun #9 Wisconsin (and eventual Heisman winner Ron Dayne) at Nippert Stadium, 17-12. The ‘Cats were 26-point underdogs.