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Off The Bench by Chatterbox Sports

Off the Bench for TWO weeks will be hosted by Reid and Casey. Lets begin with the Cincinnati Bengals, they’ve been busy…. A new Tight end, a new running back, Vonn Bell is coming back to join Geno Stone at safety. They’ve sgigned sheldon Rankins to shore up the run defense and get more pressure on the quarterback…..and they arent finished yet. The team hosted another defensive lineman and a former 11th pick in the draft offensice lineman to potentially replace jonah williams who signed a 30 million dollar deal in Arizona. We will talk all about this bengals off-season later in the show. On to hoops……..the madness of march. UC won their first two big 12 tournament games this week but the run ended last night in a 68-56 loss to baylor…. A third game in three days caught up with the cats as they ran out of steam in the second half. With three minutes left in nthe game, three starers, day day thomas, simas lucocious and aziz bandago had a combined three points….thats not gonna cut it in the big 12. Now thew question is, do they have a shot at the ncaa tournament? 20 wins in the best conference, by far, in college basketball? We find out Sunday. Xaviers season is over….no ncaa…in fact, its the schools first losing season in 26 years…gping back to the late 1990’s. X jumped out t5o a 10-0 lead against defending champion UCONN but was out scored by 37 points the rest of the way in a 27 point loss in round two of the big east tournament. Sean Miller has lots of work to do but should be very encouraged about the return of both zach fremantle and jerome hunter next season. Miami lost top akron in the mac tournament yesterday. That sets up a 2 versus 3 showdown in the semi-finals tonight in Cleveland. The Zips face the hottest team in Ohio…..THE OHIO UNIVERSITY BOBCATS, who have won, 11 of 12, after blowing western michigan out last night. Tip off tonight at 6:30. Ohio State is making a bid to make the tournament. The Buckeyes have won 7-8 under interim head coach jake diebler after beating iowa in the big ten tournament last night 90-78. The Mighty Buckeyes face number 13 Illinois tonight at 6:30. If they win are they in? Indiana is playing it’s best basketball of the season….they advance to the big ten quarterfinals with their fifth-straight win, a 61-59 decision over penn state. The hoosiers face nebraska tonight at 9 o’clock. The winner faces the winner of Ohio State-Illinois in the semis. Is Dayton a tournament team? Yes, they are ranked 24th…..yes, they have wins against Cincinnati and another tournament team, Oakland…. But they were a third place team in the A 10, and have lost three of their last nine. Only st. marys and gonzaga have played an easier schedule among the top 45 rated teams in the kenpom rankings…. Number 9 Kentucky opens play in the SEC tournament tonight against texas am . Tip off set for 7 o’clock. On the baseball front, The Reds lost to The defending world champion Texas Rangers last night 7-4. They host kansas city today in goodyear at 4 o’clock.