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Testy Bearcats ready to pounce

By The Associated Press

Fuming from a blowout loss, Cincinnati was very charged up for its last game and the result was an easy win.

The eighth-ranked Bearcats should need no such motivation Wednesday when they host a Conference USA matchup against last-place East Carolina, which has never won a league game on the road.

Cincinnati was still stinging from last Wednesday's 93-66 loss to then-No. 5 Louisville heading into its visit to Southern Mississippi on Saturday. Coach Bob Huggins' squad dominated from the outset and rolled to an 83-47 victory.

``Wednesday night, do you know there was like 5 million people watching that game .... watching us get our tails kicked,'' said Tony Bobbitt, who led the Bearcats with 19 points Saturday. ``We still got that in our mind. Like `Coach Hug' said, he had never been beat like that. That was embarrassing.''

Maybe the thoughts of falling to Louisville, which knocked Cincinnati (14-1, 5-1) from the ranks of the unbeaten, are still lingering.

``We wanted to come out and get a little stress off our shoulders, but it's still on our shoulders because that was embarrassing, man,'' Bobbitt said.

The only game of Cincinnati's last six in which Bobbitt did not lead the team in scoring came in last Wednesday's defeat, as he was held to eight points. The senior sixth man scored at least 16 points in the other five games during that stretch to raise his season average to 14.4.

Bobbitt is second on the team to forward Jason Maxiell, who averages 14.7 points and a team-high 7.5 rebounds while shooting 54 percent from the field.

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The Bearcats now host an East Carolina team which has never won a C-USA road game since joining the league three years ago. The Pirates (8-7, 0-5) have lost 14 straight road games overall.

Cincinnati is 5-0 all-time against East Carolina, though last season's two meetings were decided by a combined seven points.

Alone at the bottom of C-USA, the Pirates have gone 0-6 in January after winning their final five games of 2003. They have lost 11 consecutive conference games and have never defeated a ranked opponent on the road.

Cincinnati has won 13 in a row at home.

Only one of East Carolina's conference losses this season has not been decided by double digits. The Pirates failed to have one player score in double figures in Saturday's 70-47 loss at Saint Louis.

Derrick Wiley averages a team-high 14.8 points for East Carolina. The team's second-leading scorer, Gabriel Mikulas at 13.0 per game, was lost for the season two weeks ago with a broken arm.


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