Well if you root for any of the college basketball teams in our town, or our area, like me: you probably find yourself beating you head against the wall… You just don’t know which version of your team will show up on any given night. When i try and figure it out, I look at my 20 year old daughter and 18 year old son and it all becomes clear…..these are 18-23 year old young people, and they’re going to have really good days, and yes, even some bad days. UC…… the bearcats are in the big 12 conference for then first time. It’s college basketball’s best conference, of that, there is little doubt. They’ve played and competed in every single game. They lost four games this moth by a total of 13 points to the lies of kansas, oklahoma and and texas. They’ve beaten TCU and BYU, two nationally ranked teams. So you figure last night. Against a 7-13 west virginia team, that the Cats would roll into morgantown and get a win….. Nope. UC went up ten on back to back three pointers from day day thomas and then wilted down the stretch, getting outscored 19-5, in a 69-65 defeat. Yes you can say, and we did, that west virginia had beaten kansas and texas at home this season….they’ve also looked very bad in bad losses. This is simply a major blow for the bearcats at this point of the season. These are the games they need to win to get to the big dance in march. Next up for UC, a trip to lubbock to face number 15 texas tech . That game is saturday at 6 o’clock. Then there’s Xavier. Four days ago , the Muskies had their worst loss in a century…a century! 43 points to number one uconn. We wondered how they would bounce back with hall of fame coach rick pitino and st. johns coming to town last night. Well, the X men were up for the challenge. Especially their back court. Desmond Claude and quincy olivari tied with a game-high 23 points, dayvion mcknight finished with 19, in an 88-77 win. The muskies improve to 11-10 on the year, 5-5 in the big east. Next up, a trip to depaul saturday night for a 9:30pm tip. Womens hoops, Iowa superstar caitlin clark is zeroing in on becoming college basketball’s all-time leading scorer. Last night in her fifth straight 30 plus point game, clark passes former princeton high and ohio state star kelsey mitchell to move into number two all-time. In football, the seattle seahawks have gone from one of the oldest coaches in the league, to the youngest head coach ijn the league. Yesterday they hired baltimore defensive coordinator mike mcdonald to replace pete carroll. At just 36, mcdonald led a ravens defense that led the nfl in scoring, takeawys and sacks this season. Mcdonald interviewed with six different teams this off-season. Ravens defensive backs coach dennard wilson is the new dc for brian callahan in tennessee. The former bengal offensive coordinator fired the titans offensive line coach, which opens the door to hire his dad, bill callahan , who’s consiedred to be the very best oline coach in the game.