Cincinnati is now 1-1 in its exhibition run to start the Jerrod Calhoun era. He spoke after Saturday’s 105-96 loss to Illinois at home, which featured a nice 31-point outing from Tylen Riley.
Cincinnati is still coming together as two weeks remain until opening night against American. They have one more exhibition on Oct. 27 against Oakland at home.
“Trying to piece practices together. Akai Fleming goes down, Elijah Perryman goes down. Both kids will be back in probably about a week,” Calhoun said. “The guy that I’m most proud of outside of Tylen Riley tonight is Eric Mahaffey. For him to come in and fill our point guard position – never have done that ever against, I think, a potential national championship team – took a lot of courage, so yeah…