steamrolled T.J. Otzelberger’s group 84-63<\/a>.<\/p>\nFour days later, the Cyclones fell to a Bearcats team that has been competitive in Wes Miller’s fifth season at the helm but had struggled to finish games.<\/p>\n
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Cincinnati practically led wire-to-wire against Iowa State, even fending off a furious 14-2 run that featured a trio of Momcilovic’s 3-pointers late in the second half. Momcilovic, who entered with a nation-leading 53.9 3-point percentage, clocked out 8 of 14 from deep and with a career-high 34 points.<\/p>\n
The Bearcats were buoyed by their own run, a 17-3 surge, which they staged earlier in the period.<\/p>\n
A skip pass from forward Baba Miller to Baylor graduate transfer guard Jalen Celestine set up a 3 and really put Cincinnati’s wheels in motion. Miller finished with four assists to go along with his 12 rebounds and eight points. Celestine chipped in 12 points off the bench, thanks to four triples.<\/p>\n
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The Bearcats were paced by graduate guard Day Day Thomas, who scored a team-high 19 points. He made three 3s, plus a mid-range jumper that followed one of Iowa State’s consecutive giveaways.<\/p>\n
Cincinnati scored 20 points off the Cyclones’ 10 turnovers.<\/p>\n
Sencire Harris polished off the game-changing run with six straight points. Later, he missed a two-handed dunk on the break that could have helped the Bearcats shoo away Iowa State’s comeback bid.<\/p>\n
But even with that Cyclones push, which drew them within five points with less than five minutes to go, Cincinnati persevered.<\/p>\n
The Bearcats pulled away again late, triggering a euphoric postgame celebration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cincinnati endured eight 3-pointers from Iowa State sharpshooter Milan Momcilovic and held on to beat the No. 2…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[18941,7,7597,7596,217,8577,2469,1975,41225,231,772,1544,2467],"class_list":["post-545238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-baba-miller","tag-basketball","tag-bearcats","tag-cincinnati","tag-college-basketball","tag-iowa-state","tag-kansas","tag-louisville","tag-milan-momcilovic","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaab","tag-purdue"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115917769016330105","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}