2011 Crosstown Shootout brawl

The 2011 Crosstown Shootout brawl, nicknamed The Crosstown Punch-Out, was a bench-clearing brawl that took place at the end of the 2011 edition of the Crosstown Shootout college basketball game between the University of Cincinnati Bearcats and the Xavier University Musketeers. The game took place on December 10, 2011 at Xavier's home arena, the Cintas Center in Norwood.

The Crosstown Shootout has always been one of the more intense rivalries in college basketball, all the more so because Xavier and UC are only two miles (3.2 km) apart. There has always been a fair amount of trash talk between the two schools, and the 2011 game was no different. On December 8, UC guard Sean Kilpatrick told Andy Furman of WQRT that Xavier's All-American guard Tu Holloway probably wouldn't start for the Bearcats "with the players that we have now."

The series had developed a history of bad blood in the years leading up to the 2011 Crosstown Shootout.
In 2008, a total of six technicals were called in a 76-66 XU win. XU's Derrick Brown was ejected, and two freshman post players were involved in an altercation that included a heavy dose of foreshadowing: XU's Kenny Frease head-butted UC's Yancy Gates (both players received technicals). The altercation between Frease and Gates in 2008 set the tone for bad blood between the two, and may have motivated Gates to seek revenge in 2011.
In 2009, multiple verbal exchanges resulting in UC clearing their bench as well as technicals called on XU's Jordan Crawford and UC's Rashad Bishop in XU's double overtime win.
In 2010, Xavier's Tu Holloway received a technical foul for throwing an elbow late in UC's 66-46 win.

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