Xavier

Scott Rausenberger-Imagn Images Xavier is so good, and then so bad. Or they are so bad, and then so good. 40 minutes is not a lot longer than 30 minutes, really. If you can run for 30 minutes, another ten is unlikely to kill. If you have 40 minutes left in a shift at work it doesn’t seem like the next ten are terribly vital. A 40 minute show isn’t a significantly … [Read more...] about The best 30 minute team in the nation

Scott Rausenberger-Imagn Images The Musketeers started and ended this game playing as the Mr Hyde version of this team, but got enough Dr Jekyll in the middle to avoid a Q3 loss. In a game that they needed to avoid losing in order to keep their hopes at an at-large bid in the NCAA Tournament alive, Xavier played the worst team in the Big East more or less even for the … [Read more...] about Xavier holds off Seton Hall 73-66

Seton Hall team picture. | Jeff Hanisch-Imagn Images The must-not-losiest of all must-not-lose games. Seton Hall is bad. A more coarse writer might even say they suck. They already had 2 losses on the year before they played their first game outside of Q4. They somehow beat Virginia Commonwealth by a bucket on a neutral floor - one of their two wins in the top two quads … [Read more...] about Xavier v. Seton Hall: preview, matchups, keys to the game

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

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