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Message: [QUOTE="dwalks93, post: 2096513, member: 5598"] The sad part is Cincy is the kind of team I'd like to cheer for....they aren't a bunch of 5 star McDonald All-Americans. Cincy is often made up of 4 year players who develop in the program. Cincy teams play hard, thrive on defense, and don't take plays off. I mean Clark had his tooth knocked out and didn't miss a beat. Cincy plays well disciplined, hard nosed basketball and is as close to an old Big East team as I've seen. Yet Cronin is such an ass it is hard to not hate them. Cronin's constant temper tantrums and out of control demeanor on the side line seems to escalate Cincy games into a blood sport. IMO a lot of the player's actions on the court are derived by the coach. When the referees felt the last UConn-Cincy game was starting to slide out of control they should have turned to the coaches to help restore order. Instead, they allowed Cronin to continue to escalate the emotion and spin his players up even more. The end result was the referees taking the game over with foul calls and insuring an almost unwatchable game. There is a lot of things to respect in Cincy's program...Mick Cronin's behavior is not one of them. Personally I was proud of UConn in the last game. They did not allow Cincy to bully them like in the prior 2 Cincy games.... I'd just as soon see our guys go out swinging (I mean that figuratively.) [/QUOTE]