CINCINNATI \u2013 The Cincinnati men\u2019s basketball team travels to take on preseason No. 14 Arkansas in an exhibition contest at 8 p.m. ET Friday at Bud Walton Arena in Fayetteville, Ark. The matchup is the final exhibition for the Bearcats, who topped No. 7 Michigan, 100-98, last Friday in Ann Arbor, Mich.<\/p>\n
The game is part of a broader, mission-aligned initiative sponsored by CareSource, a nonprofit managed care organization. The CareSource Invitational aims to normalize the mental health conversation nationwide, break the stigma and promote the overall well-being of children and teens.<\/p>\n
Fans can stream the contest on SEC Network+ as part of their ESPN+ subscription.<\/p>\n
SECN+<\/a> | Live Stats<\/a> | Cincinnati Notes<\/a> | Arkansas Notes<\/a><\/p>\n Bearcat Bits<\/p>\n The 2025-26 campaign marks the 125th season of competition for Cincinnati men\u2019s basketball, and the Bearcats will commemorate the milestone with a year-long celebration honoring the program\u2019s rich history, iconic players and cultural legacy. Cincinnati men\u2019s basketball, which was named a top-10 program in college basketball history by the Associated Press, boasts 44 All-Americans, 41 conference titles, six Final Four appearances and back-to-back national championships across its history, which dates back to the 1901-02 season.
\nCincinnati is coming off a 19-16 record a year ago, going 7-13 in Big 12 play.
\nCincinnati head coach Wes Miller<\/a> enters his fifth season at the helm of the Bearcats and his 15th overall as a head coach. Miller has posted a 267-194 career record, including 82-59 at Cincinnati. His teams have won 20-plus games in seven of the last nine seasons.
\nGraduate guard Day Day Thomas<\/a> has averaged 10.3 points and three assists in 67 career games at UC. He\u2019s coming off a season in which he averaged 10.2 points, 2.7 assists and 2.7 rebounds per contest.
\nCincinnati\u2019s six scholarship transfers (Jalen Celestine<\/a>, Sencire Harris<\/a>, Jalen Haynes<\/a>, Kerr Kriisa<\/a>, Baba Miller<\/a> and Moustapha Thiam<\/a>) come to Cincinnati averaging 80 career games played at the college level. The Bearcats welcome a total of 12 newcomers to the roster in addition to three returners from a year ago.
\nCincinnati topped preseason No. 7 Michigan, 100-98, in an exhibition game Oct. 17 at Crisler Center. Shon Abaev<\/a>, Kerr Kriisa<\/a> and Moustapha Thiam<\/a> led six Bearcats in double figures with 15, while Sencire Harris<\/a> added 13, Day Day Thomas<\/a> poured in 12 and Baba Miller<\/a> scored 11.
\nThe Bearcats, who open the regular season against Western Carolina Nov. 3 at Fifth Third Arena, will face seven NCAA Tournament teams from a season ago in their non-conference schedule and seven more in their Big 12 Conference slate, including national runner-up Houston to open league play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI \u2013 The Cincinnati men\u2019s basketball team travels to take on preseason No. 14 Arkansas in an exhibition…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,116785,135067,15056,1769,398,400,401,99,15910,135066],"class_list":["post-247213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-bearcats","tag-bearcats-athletics","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-bearcats","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaabasketball","tag-sports","tag-university-of-cincinnati","tag-university-of-cincinnati-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}