“I’m excited," UC graduate guard David DeJulius said Tuesday. "I was just talking about it yesterday to someone. We played here during the COVID year, and it was barely anyone in here, and the atmosphere and the energy still felt different than the other games that year. So I’m excited to see this place packed out. For sure.”
DeJulius, who was playing for the Michigan Wolverines in December 2018, had 16 points, five rebounds and six assists in the 2020 meeting against Xavier. The Musketeers won, 77-69. DeJulius scored 12 points in last season's 83-63 loss inside Xavier's Cintas Center.
The preseason second-team All-American Athletic Conference selection said he's going to do everything in his power to secure a victory Saturday and end Cincinnati's winless drought against the team from across town.
"When I walked into practice (Monday), I said, 'Our fan base deserves this.' They deserve for us to go out there and play as hard as we can, play as smart as we can. Because all that they do for us each and every day and the support that they give us, it’s only right that we give that respect and that gratitude back, and that’s by going out there and playing as hard as we can.”
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