NCAA Tournament Notes and Links: Cincinnati Bearcats Prepare for Purdue Boilermakers

By Adam Hughes | Mar 18, 2015

The University of Cincinnati Bearcats will open their play in the 2015 NCAA Tournament with a second-round game against the Purdue Boilermakers on Thursday evening in Louisville, KY. Purdue is the Number 9 seed in the Midwest Regional, while UC is Number 8, and the winner will likely play undefeated Kentucky in the third round.

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To help you start getting warmed up for all of Thursday’s actions, here are the latest bits and quips about the UC-Purdue matchup.

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Tom Groeschen of the Cincinnati Enquirer points out that, while the Bearcats hold the higher seed, the Boilers were slight favorites as of Tuesday evening.
Groeschen also points out that the Bearcats have already sold out of their allotment of tickets — 550 of them — for their second-round game against Purdue.
WCPO breaks down the upcoming Purdue game and sees a potential defensive struggle in the making, as UC is stingy with the ball but does not score well, and Purdue is a moderate scoring team at best.
Meanwhile, Purdue’s Matt Painter is trying to dispel the notion that maybe Cincinnati will be an easy out since they lost their own conference championship last weekend.
Painter recently won the Infiniti Coaches’ Charity Challenge, which benefits research into Niemann-Pick Type C Disease.

Watch here for more Bearcats news as the tournament approaches.

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