Posted Thursday, March 23, 10:28 p.m.

GW men’s basketball head coach Karl Hobbs is not going to Cincinnati. Murray State head coach Mick Cronin was announced as the head coach of the University of Cincinnati after the Bearcats’ 65-62 loss to South Carolina in the NIT Thursday night.

The announcement comes only a day after Hobbs said he was contacted by the Bearcats to talk about the vacancy. Hobbs could not be reached for comment Thursday night. He has been mentioned as a candidate for other jobs, including at Indiana. Cronin was an assistant coach at Cincinnati from 1997-2001.

“Since becoming AD on December 1, I have talked to countless coaches, commissioners, administrators and other experts around the college basketball world. The one name that constantly came up in these discussions was Mick Cronin,” Cincinnati Athletic Director Mike Thomas said in a news release.