On Wednesday, Dec. 19, the University of Cincinnati Men's Basketball Team will play Xavier University in the Crosstown Classic. If you won't be in town for the game, there's a good chance a group of UC alumni are hosting a game watch nearby!
Check out the list below to see where you can watch the game with other alumni in your area. If your city or region is not featured below and you're interested in organizing a game-watch, please contact Sam Walston at the UC Alumni Association.
If you love being
a UC alum, you’re probably feeling the tug of Homecoming this week. The big day
is this Saturday, October 6 — but Homecoming is more than just one
day. In fact, it’s a lot of events over several days that encourage all
Bearcats to return to campus.
The students are
celebrating Homecoming all week, and the theme they created — “We Love Lucy: A
Flashback to Yesteryear” — honors the generations-old Homecoming tradition as
well as today’s real-life
binturong school mascot. UC Blue Ash starts its festivities on Wednesday
and will bring a float to the parade for the first time. The UC Alumni
Association’s African
American Alumni Affiliate (known as 4A) begins three days of fun on
Thursday. And the inaugural Homecoming
Kickoff Party will take place Friday evening at the Myers Alumni Center …
Coach Butch Jones, an array of “Cincinnati Favorites” to eat, beer-tasting from
local brewery Christian Moerlein, a steel drum band, campus tours — and it’s
all FREE!
Then comes
Saturday, and it will be worth waiting for:
College-based and other organizations will have events throughout
the day.
The annual Homecoming Parade will start down Clifton Avenue at 3
p.m. This year's Homecoming Parade Grand Marshals are Ernie and Cindy (Chiang) Halvorsen,
champions of The Amazing Race in 2011! Cindy,
CEAS ’04, was a UC Honors student, creator of Camp Bearcat, recipient of
the 2004 Presidential Leadership Medal of Excellence, and Homecoming Queen
in 2002.
The UC Alumni Association’s Bearcats
Blitz starts at 2 p.m., part of the vibrant UC Gameday
environment.
Starting at the Blitz and then winding through The Grid tailgate
area, the football team’s traditional CATWALK
begins at about 4:30 p.m.
UC meets its longest football rival, Miami, at 7 p.m. in Nippert
Stadium, which means the Bearcats should be ringing the
Victory Bell shortly after 10 p.m.
“This weekend, UC
is the place to be,” said UC Alumni Association executive director Myron
Hughes, ’86. “Old and new friends all over the place, great food, winning
football, family fun, our old stomping grounds … There’s a reason they call it
Homecoming. We hope Bearcats everywhere make plans to come back.”
Thanks to everyone who joined President Williams’ celebration of UC in Florida February 17th-20th. His road trip included stops in Miami, Orlando, Naples and Sarasota!
If you weren’t lucky enough to make the trip, the Florida sun wasn’t all you missed. In addition to a visit and book-signing with President Williams, Jay Chatterjee took guests on a retrospective tour of the 20-year master plan that successfully resulted in UC’s beautiful, world-renowned campus.
And in Orlando and Naples, guests were blown away by the inspirational words of senior urban planning student and future guest-blogger, Victoria Fromme. Stay tuned for her appearance on “UC Where YOU Are” in early April, where she’ll share her full presentation and how UC landed her in Florida for a co-op job.
Were you with us in Florida? Check out the Florida photo gallery to find yourself, friends and colleagues and if we missed you, hear what President Williams had to say in this short video snippet.
