By Bill Koch
The Cincinnati Enquirer

Field Williams, stoic when he makes shots and when he misses them, says he will show very little emotion today when he's introduced for his last game at Fifth Third Arena.

"I'll be the same dude," Williams said. "I'm not going to change."

Williams, along with Tony Bobbitt and Kareem Johnson, will be honored before the game on Senior Day. Bobbitt and Johnson are junior-college transfers who have been at UC for only two years, but Williams is a four-year player who needs only one class to graduate.

The 6-foot-4 guard from Houston said he will "lay it on the floor" for the home fans one last time today, especially with a conference co-championship on the line.

"He's a throwback," UC coach Bob Huggins said of Williams, who needs 39 points to reach 1,000 points for his career. "He's a guy who actually loves to come to practice and actually loves being in the gym. That's a dying breed today."

Williams was part of two conference championship teams as a freshman and sophomore, but if the Bearcats don't win today and claim a share of the Conference UA title, Bobbitt and Johnson will leave the school without a league title.

Bobbitt, a 6-4 guard from Daytona Beach, Fla., quit the team briefly as a junior but has been a valuable player off the bench this season, averaging 13.1 points a game.

"I think to this day I made a good choice by coming here," he said. "As far as the people here in Cincinnati, I love them to death. It's been hard, but then again it takes hardness to get the fun out of it. Everything Coach Huggins told me when I first came here has happened."

Johnson, a 6-7 center from Eufaula, Ala., has averaged 4.0 points and 5.0 rebounds in his two years at UC.

"It's going to be very emotional," Johnson said. "They said it was going to be hard. In my mind, I was thinking it was just basketball. But when I got here it was totally different, a different coach and a different style."

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