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Date Posted: 14:00:55 12/18/02 Wed
Author: UCPotvin
Subject: notes from Jimmy V Classic...

Two friends and I attended last night's Jimmy V Classic and what a night it was to be a Bearcat fan. Since I live in New Jersey the 'Cats don't often come to NJ to play so I leapt at the opportunity to see them live while also taping the game. For those interested, you can see me right after Dick Vitale finishes his halftime speech as one of the young fans clapping at the conclusion of the speech wearing a UC hat. I had front row seats behind the basket the Cats were shooting at in the second half, right behind the UC cheerleaders. Some notes from seeing the game in person. Every UC player on the floor played with tremendous confidence and defensively we played as solid as I've seen all season. They had maybe one offensive rebound the whole first half. Taron looked aggressive going to the hoop when he needed to and hit some clutch shots with the shot clock winding down. Max played hard the whole game and his alley oop defied the laws of physics, the crowd (more Oregon fans than UC fans) all stood up in awe after that one. When Bobbit came in he looked confident and shot looked pure. Field had a few looks but Ridnour was guarding him behind the 3 point line and he didn't get many good looks. Johnson was active, boarded well and though he had 4 fouls he played hard. Stokes scored in every conceiveable way, 3 pointer, spinning jumper, put back slam off a missed shot, alley oop lay up, he was consistent and didn't force anything. The critical part was Barker and Stokes locking up the Luke and Luke show. Both ran through screens well and gave them no easy looks. Barker picked up Ridnour at half court and didn't let him run or get good looks. Going in I knew we'd at least have our two best defensive players on their best two offensive players. On a sidenote, I told one of my friends on the ride there that Kenyon would show up and low and behold he did with 10 minutes to go in the game, I was about 15 feet away from him and he walked right past me and stood by the UC bench and got a big ovation from the entire crowd that remained for the entire game. All in all I came away impressed and pumped that with Bobbit finding his stroke and if Field can find his to go with Stokes and Barker being solid we'll have another good year...

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