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Cool as you like | Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images Xavier will get another one, but my goodness. My goodness. Everyone take a deep breath. Slow that heart rate. Did you miss this? That game was everything that March can be. Horrific, terrifying, heart attack inducing, panicking, and then, finally, elating. There were 32 minutes of pain, a storming comeback, then a … [Read more...] about Xavier 72-67 Kennesaw St: Barely survive and advance

Bob Donnan-USA TODAY Sports Everything we’ve written and recorded about the NCAA tournament, all in one place. Games have tipped. Work productivity has ceased. It’s the best two days of the year. We’ve spent hours talking and spilled a lot of digital ink in the lead up to this Thursday/Friday set up. If you’d want to read all of it, here it all is. We started it off by … [Read more...] about Full Tournament Coverage

Jeff Curry-USA TODAY Sports YOUR Xavier Musketeers land in a region chock full of teams that have aspirations of making it to Houston by beating Houston. After four months of winnowing, the greatest single-elimination contest is sports is set to begin. From 363 D1 basketball programs, 68 have been chosen to spend three weekends playing for the sport’s national title. … [Read more...] about 2023 NCAA Midwest Region Tournament Preview

I love this guy, and Xavier grabbed him in May | Kareem Elgazzar/The Enquirer / USA TODAY NETWORK Why let anything supersede the greatest event in American sports? The biggest event in college basketball has opened. People are tweeting, eyeballs are drawn from across the nation, coaches are scrambling, players are reviewing film, and, my goodness the tweeting. No, I’m … [Read more...] about The transfer portal should wait

Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images After four months of winnowing, the greatest single-elimination contest is sports is set to begin. From 363 D1 basketball programs, 68 have been chosen to spend three weekends playing for the sport’s national title. Each of the four regions will battle to send one representative to the Final Four. Joel did the … [Read more...] about 2023 NCAA West Region Preview