The kid knows where the cameras are | Aaron Doster-Imagn Images Dailyn Swain just keeps getting better, and it’s causing the Big East a real problem After one game in Big East play this season Dailyn Swain was progressing like any talented sophomore. He was averaging 8.3 points per game, occasionally being dominant, and mostly letting the other big names on Xavier do … [Read more...] about I am become Dailyn, destroyer of worlds
Xavier rides a dominant defensive display to a 76-63 win over Butler
Aaron Doster-Imagn Images Not quite a vintage #ZipEmUp performance, but a 22-2 run in the first half doesn’t happen without the body bags close at hand. Coming into this game, one of the highlighted numbers on the stat sheet was Butler’s three-point shooting during the month of February, when they had been the best team in the nation in making just under half of their … [Read more...] about Xavier rides a dominant defensive display to a 76-63 win over Butler
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A sight for sore eyes | Frank Bowen IV/The Enquirer / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images February drags on as Xavier tries to run the table Congratulations, friends, on living through the first 100 days of February. Grimly, 100 more lie ahead. It defies logic that the daytime hours are growing longer but somehow there is more sullen grey, but here we are. It won’t be 20 … [Read more...] about Checking in
Xavier v. Butler: Preview, matchups, and keys to the game
Boo this man | David Butler II-Imagn Images Xavier needs this one because Xavier needs all of them. Butler is just here to spoil the fun. You’re probably going to get tired of reading this if you haven’t already, but Xavier cannot afford to lose this game. After the loss against Villanova that I’m going to blame on influenzas A and B, anything resembling a margin for … [Read more...] about Xavier v. Butler: Preview, matchups, and keys to the game
Xavier dishes out a perfunctory beating to move past DePaul
He'd be so good at pointing out the emergency exits on a commercial flight. | Aaron Doster-Imagn Images Couldn't lose, didn't. On to the next. What's the most dissatisfied you've ever been after watching Xavier win by 19? I don't think today's demolition of DePaul ticks that box for me, but there were points in the game where I would have heard a case for it. Things … [Read more...] about Xavier dishes out a perfunctory beating to move past DePaul