In basketball, the Bearcats' crosstown rival is the Xavier University Musketeers. Lucy lives at the Cincinnati Zoo. "Cincinnati on Field and Court: The Sports Legacy of the Queen City." The mascot for the University of Cincinnati is the Bearcat. Retirement also brings a bigger home for the bearcat. Lucy's primary caregiver has noticed a change in the bearcat's apparent interest in going out to places as an ambassador. In addition, Huggins was responsible for recruiting several future NBA players including Kenyon Martin, Corie Blount, Ruben Patterson, Nick Van Exel and DerMarr Johnson. Lucy has been a fixture at UC games since 2008. Unfortunately, the teams have not played in men's basketball since 2011. Lucy the bearcat, UC's live mascot, is retiring. Home to UC Women's Soccer and Track and Field teams. Under Huggins, the Bearcats compiled a 399–127 record in sixteen seasons, and posted fourteen straight NCAA tournament appearances. Cincinnati. Chicago, IL: Arcadia, 2003. Cincinnati and Wichita State University are currently the only members of The American that are located in the Midwestern United States; all other members are in the Northeast or South. Cincinnati's main campus and medical campus are located in Clifton Heights, while its branch campuses are in Blue Ash and Clermont. Cincinnati prevailed, 14–7, and the victory was memorialized in a cartoon published on the front page of the student newspaper, the weekly University News, on November 3. Lucy lives at the Cincinnati Zoo. The university has a diverse number of intercollegiate club sports teams. Jim Kelly, a Bearcat wide receiver during the mid 1970s, provides analysis for football. "The decision for Lucy to retire from doing appearances was made when Lucy's primary caregiver noticed a change in her usual enthusiasm for getting out and going places," zoo officials said. Louisville, KY: Harmony House, 1998. An animal's body language and other signs indicating there is a preference not to participate in public. Although Cincinnati does not play these schools regularly, these are geographic rivals and are all universities of similar size and stature. CINCINNATI — Lucy the bearcat, the unofficial live mascot of the University of Cincinnati, is retiring. A newly-expanded indoor and outdoor habitat will offer daily enrichment activities for Lucy, according to the Zoo's Facebook post. A prolific era in Bearcats basketball was during the late 1950s and early 1960s, when the Bearcats posted five consecutive Final Four appearances. They can always opt out.". Cincinnati also has had intermittent rivalries with the Ohio State Buckeyes, Ohio Bobcats, and the Kentucky Wildcats. † – Track and field includes both indoor and outdoor. So, don't expect Lucy to be inactive in retirement. Unlimited access to Cincinnati.com for 99 cents a month. The rivalry between these two schools dates to their first men's college football game in 1966, and has continued across all sports, with the basketball series gaining attention as well, having started in 1968. The teams also frequently played in men's basketball, though the series has ceased since 2011. After attending more than 200 University of Cincinnati sporting events, the thrill is gone for Lucy the bearcat. Cincinnati and the University of Louisville battled annually for the Keg of Nails. Cincinn… Founded in 1819 as Cincinnati College, it is the oldest institution of higher education in Cincinnati and has an annual enrollment of over 44,000 students, making it the second largest university in Ohio. In 2014 and 2015 UCWRFC competed in the Women's College Division 2 Fall Championship; advancing to the round of 8 in 2015. Olympics, University of Cincinnati", "University of Cincinnati Official Athletic Site", "KOCH: Machock Returning to the Road for American Tournament", "FOX Sports Ohio Announces 2010–11 UC Basketball Telecast Schedule", "Former UC star Anthony Buford admits guilt in mortgage fraud scheme", College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services, College of Engineering and Applied Science, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cincinnati_Bearcats&oldid=983768658, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. During the second half of that hard-fought football game, UC cheerleader Norman "Pat" Lyon, building on the efforts of fullback Leonard K. "Teddy" Baehr, created the chant: "They may be Wildcats, but we have a Baehr-cat on our side." The key players in the birth of the Bearcat were a star UC player named Baehr, a creative cheerleader, and a talented cartoonist. The Bearcat became the UC mascot on October 31, 1914 in a football game against the UK Wildcats. Football has also intensified, with both teams playing in the 2019 American Athletic Conference Football Championship Game. Visitors will see more of her and will be able to observe as she learns new behaviors and participates in educational chats. Xavier is located less than 3 miles from the University of Cincinnati's main campus. Animal ambassador body language and other signs indicating they prefer not to participate in an activity are monitored by caregivers, the Zoo post said. Unanimous three-time All American guard Oscar Robertson led the nation in scoring during the 1957–58, 1958–59, and 1959–60 seasons and posted a career average of 33.8 points per game, which ranks as the third all-time best in Division I. Cincinnati has won two national championships in 1961 and 1962. But her public life is over, zoo officials said. The Cincinnati Zoo bearcat is retiring from live UC mascot duty for the easy life of chewing on fruit in an expanded home, according to a Cincinnati Zoo Facebook post.