Cincinnati Basketball: Daniel Skillings Jr celebrates birthday with 21-point showing

Cincinnati Bearcats forward Daniel Skillings Jr celebrated his birthday with a great showing in the win against the UCF Knights last weekend!

During the comeback win over Big 12 rival UCF, Skillings racked up a game-high 21 points to go with seven rebounds and two assists as well.

Ever since conference play started this month, Skillings is averaging 13.1 points alongside 5.1 rebounds and four double-digit performances.

Skillings should continue to build on the recent performance and will try to keep the momentum going at West Virginia on Wednesday evening.

Cincinnati Basketball: Daniel Skillings Jr celebrates birthday with 21-point game

Cincinnati failed to find success for a majority of the night but finished the game on a dominant 24-9 run to pick up a much-needed Big 12 win.

It appeared the Bearcats were going to suffer a third straight loss before storming back to take down UCF and improve to 14-6 this season.

Skillings discussed his mindset in recent weeks and how that has led to his increased production in the press conference per Cincinnati Athletics.

“I wasn't trying to force anything. I’m learning my game more and just try to let everything happen, come to me and not force some things."