Arrrrgh. Sykes forced penetration against a double team, and loses the ball to Cinci. Had a great chance to take the lead there inside 2:00.
Cinci takes it the other way for a bucket & a foul -- on Blair, who's gone with his 5th.
EDIT - Jackson misses at the line, Knights have it down 2 with 1:20 left.
EDIT - Justin McBride, UCF's 310-lb juvenile behemoth in the middle, gets hacked underneath. Refs reviewing if it's a flagrant 1.
EDIT - Good call here, as the defender made no play on the ball and just mugged him by immobilizing his arms. It's 2 shots and the ball for the Knights.
EDIT - McBride misses them both. And they weren't pretty.
EDIT - Good ball movement by UCF, and they got Wilson a wide-open three from the left point, but he back-rimmed it. Cinci still up 2 with :43 left. Time-out Bearcats, they have 1 left.
EDIT - Johnson buries a deep three for Cinci, and they're up 5 with 19.9 left. Time out UCF (1 left).
EDIT - Sykes drives hard, gets his feet taken out from under him, and slams his side hard. Ribs or hip pointer maybe? Now he's being helped off the court, and he's not moving his right leg. Now Mick Cronin gets to choose who shoots his FTs, and to no one's surprise it's McBride.
EDIT - It's a knee issue for Sykes. McBride misses the first, makes the 2nd. Cinci up 4 with 11.8 left.
EDIT - Sykes ends his career with a 21-pt, 9-reb night as Cinci wins it, 61-58 with a late UCF layup at the buzzer. Sean Kilpatrick with 20 pts & 9 boards for the Bearcats.