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No need for a scarf or hoodie so far in Indianapolis: Ice and snow are no-shows as Super Bowl week gets under way for only the fourth game in a northern city.
The first capacity crowd of the season at Cincinnati's home court headed for the exits early. All the fans' energy couldn't produce a signature win.
Kris Joseph scored 17 points Monday night, and No. 3 Syracuse recovered from its first loss of the season by beating Cincinnati 60-53, giving coach Jim Boeheim a notable career win.
Cincinnati finished its tough Big East stretch Thursday, losing its third straight game to a Top 10 team, 80-37 at Connecticut.
Natalie Novosel scored 21 points Saturday, and point guard Skylar Diggins steadied Notre Dame's balanced offense with 11 assists, leading the Fighting Irish to a 76-50 victory over Cincinnati.
In the Bengals' biggest game, running back Cedric Benson was a bystander.
The Ravens boarded their plane with commemorative championship caps and headed for the only place they want to be at this time of the year.
Andy Dalton's desperate pass into the end zone fell incomplete in the scrum of players, leaving the Bengals still winless against playoff teams this season.
The Ravens clinched a title and headed home, which is the only place they want to be at this time of the season.
Hot dogs, cotton candy, hot chocolate and water. The Bengals offered refreshments Monday to fans who lined up for a ticket promotion aimed at filling Paul Brown Stadium for the final game.
The Cardinals kept their season alive with one fourth-quarter comeback after another. The most improbable one yet got tripped up at the goal line.
The stadium was only two-thirds full again. The Cardinals were on another one of their incredible comebacks, threatening to derail the Cincinnati Bengals' surprising playoff surge.
Oral Roberts doesn't mind the asterisk that will get attached to this one.
Dominique Morrison scored 19 points Sunday, leading Oral Roberts to a 64-42 victory over previously unbeaten Xavier, which couldn't do much with three of its starters suspended.
The Bengals suddenly need a lot of help — stopping the pass, selling tickets and staying in the playoff chase.
Suspended Cincinnati forward Yancy Gates apologized to everyone, from his family to his entire hometown, for throwing punches that left much more than just a bloody gash below the eye of a Xavier player.
A rookie got the Houston Texans to a place they've never known, one that seemed ready to disappear when their top two quarterbacks got hurt last month.
A rookie quarterback led the biggest drive in Houston Texans history, one that took them to the end zone and their first playoff berth.
Cincinnati forward Yancy Gates got a six-game suspension on Sunday for throwing punches during a brawl with No. 8 Xavier in the closing minute of their annual crosstown rivalry game.
Bearcats coach Mick Cronin saw it coming and tried to stop it.
Xavier center Kenny Frease used a white cloth to soak up the blood streaming from a gash below his eye. Coaches from both teams bear-hugged their players and tried to yank them away from the bedlam.
With the game on the line, the Browns couldn't get off a clean snap for a field goal. Then, they let rookie receiver A.J. Green beat them again.
A.J. Green's bruised knee kept him on the sideline for the final minutes of Cincinnati's past two games, when the Bengals came up just short against AFC North rivals.
Tu Holloway overcame a sore shooting hand and scored 12 points Friday night, leading a balanced offense that carried No. 12 Xavier to a 70-56 victory over poor-shooting Georgia.
Nnemkadi Ogwumike scored a season-high 34 points and opened the second half by dominating under the basket Friday, leading No. 3 Stanford to an 80-64 victory over Xavier.
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