'Ain't Gonna Pay Any Damn Mind To It' - Wes Miller, Bearcats Focused on Improving to End Three-Game Losing Streak

Miller's team got whalloped on Tuesday night.

Cincinnati Bearcats head coach Wes Miller reacts in the second half of the NCAA basketball game against the Arizona Wildcats at the Fifth Third Arena in Cincinnati on Saturday, January 4, 2025. / Albert Cesare/The Enquirer / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

CINCINNATI — Wes Miller and the Bearcats are keeping blinders on amidst UC's first three-game losing streak this season. Cincinnati added another loss 68-48 against Baylor, while also suffering the worst conference loss by margin since the program entered the Big 12.

Cincinnati shot 34.7% and was outrebounded 29-27 on Tuesday night.

"I guess you do have two choices," UC head coach Wes Miller said about criticism during this stretch. "You can either deal with it the right way, which is to pay it absolutely no mind and focus on what we got to do, or you can handle it the wrong way and let it affect you. I can tell you what we're going to do. I'll tell everybody. You can say as many bad things as you want about our team and our players and our coaches as you want on social media, I ain't gonna listen to it. I got no time for it. 

"We're a good team. We've been a good team. We will be a good team. So we're gonna get back to work on doing all the things we have to do to get back on track. We're gonna handle that part the right way. We ain't gonna pay any damn mind to it. That's very difficult for young people in 2024 with the cell phones and all that stuff but I got a really tough group of kids I got a high-character group of kids. I got no worries about that."

The sky can feel like it's falling in a slide like this, but Cincinnati has plenty of time to get back on track. A win against No. 11 Kansas on Saturday would have an Undertaker-rising-from-the-coffin impact.

Cincinnati is a narrow matchup predictor underdog to lose that contest (Kansas wins 55.6% of the time according to ESPN). It would leave them as the only 0-4 team in conference play at the final buzzer.

"I have a lot of faith in this team, and I think we're a really good team, and has never changed in my mindset, whatsoever," Dan Skillings said after his 18-point outing. "I love this team, and I'm going to keep loving this team, and I have a lot of faith that we're going to get back to practice, and we're going to bring the positivity, we're going to bring energy, and we're going to keep doing what we're working on because, at the end of the road, we're going to look back at this stretch, and be glad we went through it to make us better and make us go harder. 

"And remember, never be too high on your highs and never be too low on your lows, just stay in the middle, and keep working because of how we work, and believe in each other. We're going to get what we want at the end."

Cincinnati is now down to No. 35 in the NCAA's NET rating—their lowest ranking of the season. The program is ranked outside the top 30 of every major CBB metric except for ESPN's Basketball Power Index (26th nationally).

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