Steven Branscombe-Imagn Images Want to cap a season-changing four game swing? Grab a huge Q1 on the road. Road kill. I think Dante Jackson started it. Watch Xavier Twitter after a big road win and you’ll those words, or word, depending on how you style it, pop up everywhere. Going on the road and leaving the other team in a crumpled heap means something. It means … [Read more...] about Xavier v. Creighton: Preview, matchups, keys to the game
Xavier can’t hang with Creighton late, fall 86-77 on the road
Steven Branscombe-Imagn Images The Muskies gave it a game effort before getting buried under an avalanche of threes. Games like these make you wonder. You wonder what might have happened if, shortly after Ryan Kalkbrenner had been called for his first foul just after the first media timeout of the game, the officials would have adjudged the contact he made on an … [Read more...] about Xavier can’t hang with Creighton late, fall 86-77 on the road
Dailyn Swain hasn’t even arrived yet
“Tell your sister to stop calling me.” | Sam Greene/The Enquirer / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Xavier’s super sophomore has been turning up the production in January, but he’s not even approaching his ceiling. If you watched Xavier take on UConn over the weekend, you could be forgiven for thinking Dailyn Swain was at his basketball zenith. He announced before the … [Read more...] about Dailyn Swain hasn’t even arrived yet
Victory Sunday Conversation
Good to see Coach Miller happy | Sam Greene/The Enquirer / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Your team isn’t playing, our team isn’t playing, so let’s talk Xavier. Brad: What a game. Did a Husky have illicit congress with Dante Maddox’ mother? What a game he had. He was just a lunatic agent of chaos. He doesn’t care where he’s facing, where the basket is, where a … [Read more...] about Victory Sunday Conversation
Xavier v. UConn: preview, matchups, keys to the game
“Hello, coach? I can’t play today, I’m all ouchy.” | Robert Goddin-Imagn Images This is a big one. Xavier has lost eight games this year. They got thumped by Michigan. They got run off the floor at Cintas against St. John’s. Aside from those two games, they’ve played every loss right down to the wire. This is a team with a resume on life support, but the capacity to … [Read more...] about Xavier v. UConn: preview, matchups, keys to the game