There has always been bad blood between Xavier and Cincinnati. The schools are only 4 miles apart and jockey for position in the city.
Saturday night, an ugly brawl erupted with 9.4 seconds left in their basketball game.
Benches cleared, fists flew.
Lots of mayhem. Lots of blood.
Not your garden variety pushing and shoving.
The post-game explanations were equally as chilling.
Xavier’s senior All-America guard Tu Holloway readily admitted starting the fight by taunting Cincinnati players and coaches … and he defended his actions, and those of his Xavier teammates, for their parts in the fight:
“You gotta understand, we got a whole bunch of gangsters in the locker room … tough guys.”
When asked why he taunted the Cincinnati bench and incited the fracas, Holloway said that he was disrespected when a Cincinnati player said that he was a better player.
“This is my city … I’m cut from a different cloth.
None of them guys on their team is like me.
We got disrespected.
Maybe it looked bad to you (media), but this is what I’m used to.
This is where I’m from..”
Georgetown connection?
Cincinnati is in the big East … Xavier is “A Jesuit, Catholic University in Cincinnati, Ohio since 1831”.
Yipes.
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