5 Best Cincinnati Bearcats Basketball Players, Ranked

The Cincinnati Bearcats have two NCAA titles, which were in 1961 and 1962. Since then, if you bet on their college basketball odds to win the title, the closest you would’ve gotten was them finishing second in 1963.

After that, it wouldn’t be until 1992 that they made it to the Final Four. 

Now, you can wager on their basketball odds at the BetMGM online sportsbook. 

Below is my list of the five best Bearcats of all time. 

5 Best Cincinnati Bearcats Basketball Players, Ranked

Cincinnati Bearcats All-Time Greatest Basketball Players

1. Oscar Robertson

Robertson played for Cincinnati from 1957 to 1960, receiving numerous accolades while there. 

He was a two-time Helms College Player of the Year, three-time UPI College Player of the Year, two-time USBWA College Player of the Year, three-time Sporting News College Player of the Year, three-time consensus first-team All-American, three-time NCAA scoring champion, and three-time first-team All-MVC, and the school retired his No. 12. 

Over his three seasons there, he averaged 33.8 points and 15.2 rebounds per game. 

He’s the Bearcats all-time leading scorer with 2,973 points. He also hauled in 1,338 rebounds (most in program history) and 425 assists (sixth).

Robertson also holds the top three single-season records, headlined by 1,011 points in the 1959-60 season.  

2. Kenyon Martin

Martin suited up for the Bearcats from 1996 to 2000. He was named the National College Player of the Year, consensus first-team All-American, NABC Defensive Player of the Year, Conference USA Player of the Year, two-time first-team All-Conference USA, and his No. 4 was retired by the school. 

As a senior, he averaged 18.9 points, 9.7 rebounds, and 3.5 blocks. 

He’s the Bearcats all-time leader in blocks with 292. 

3. Jack Twyman

Twyman played for Cincinnati from 1951 to 1955. Over his career, he averaged 17.8 points and 13.8 rebounds per game. 

As a junior and senior, he averaged at least 21.8 points and 16.5 rebounds in each season. 

He was a second-team All-American, and his No. 27 was retired by the program. 

During the 1954-55 campaign, he scored 712 points, fifth in a single season in Bearcats history. 

Twyman also ranks second in Bearcats history in rebounds with 1,242. 

4. Danny Fortson

Before going on to be a top 10 pick in the 1997 NBA Draft, Fortson played at Cincinnati from 1994 to 1997. 

He was a consensus first-team All-American, a consensus second-team All-American, a two-time Conference USA Player of the Year, a two-time first-team All-Conference USA, and a first-team All-Great Midwest. 

Over his three seasons, he averaged 18.8 points, 8.7 rebounds, 1.2 assists, and 0.9 steals per game. 

Fortson is fifth all-time in scoring with 1,881 points. 

5. Steve Logan

Logan averaged 14.7 points, 2.2 rebounds, 3.4 assists, and 0.7 steals across his four seasons at Cincinnati from 1998 to 2002. 

As a senior, he averaged 22 points, 3.1 rebounds, and 5.3 assists per game. 

He was a consensus first-team All-American, two-time Conference USA Player of the Year, two-time first-team All-Conference USA, and received the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award (given to the nation’s best player listed at 6 feet or less). 

Logan scored 1,985 points (third) and had 456 assists (fifth).