Grace Hollars/IndyStar / USA TODAY NETWORK It’s Senior Night at the Cintas as X takes the court at home for the final time this season. Somehow, the regular season is over yet. When this game is done, Xavier, and the rest of the basketball world, enter a series of knockout games. Lose in the Big East tournament and you won’t take home the title that has eluded X so far. … [Read more...] about Xavier v. Butler: Preview, matchups, and keys to the game
Thursday morning news and notes
Eric Canha-USA TODAY Sports A quick roundup of a few Xavier loose ends from the week This is Xavier’s highest ever March NET ranking Xavier is 19th in the NET this morning. The NET hasn’t been around long, so that means 19th is the highest Xavier has ever been in March. On March 10th (the closet date), 2019 they were 71st. In 2020 they were kicking around the bubble at … [Read more...] about Thursday morning news and notes
Xavier 94-89 Providence: Xavier starts hot and a leak can’t save Providence this time.
This man. | Eric Canha-USA TODAY Sports Souley Boum and Colby Jones are really good at this basketball thing. Xavier is tough. Zip em up tough, one might say. The Musketeers, with an assist from an idiotic Ed Cooley tech, blew out to a huge lead tonight and then had to hang on in a battle with Bryce Hopkins, Ed Croswell, and their uncles officiating the game to walk out … [Read more...] about Xavier 94-89 Providence: Xavier starts hot and a leak can’t save Providence this time.
The NET doesn’t do what you’re asking it to
"Get that NET out of here!" | Bob Donnan-USA TODAY Sports Nobody liked the RPI. Now nobody likes its replacement. Villanova is a solid basketball team playing some of their best hoops of the season right now. They've lost just one of their last seven and have been playing like a tournament team in that span, ranking 40th in the Torvik. They are - at least since Justin … [Read more...] about The NET doesn’t do what you’re asking it to
Surviving February
Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports The month that has undone Xavier recently failed to do so this year. The days between Marquette and DePaul this February were fraught. Xavier had lost two in a row on almost exactly the same days they did last February and, yes, the year before that. For two straight years the worst month of the year had risen up and bitten the … [Read more...] about Surviving February