Daniel Kucin Jr.-Imagn Images The first of nine straight must-win games for the Muskies is Georgetown at home. I’ll confess that I don’t know exactly how KenPom’s conference strength of schedule rating is calculated, but it certainly tracks with my gut feeling when placing Xavier on top of the Big East in that metric by a large margin. The gap between Xavier in first … [Read more...] about Xavier v. Georgetown: preview, matchups, keys to the game
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Xavier 74-69 Georgetown: LaPhonso Ellis finds love, but it’s Xavier who finds the win
Katie Stratman-Imagn Images Xavier just about did enough to win a game they very much could not afford to lose. They don’t ask how, they just ask how many. Imagine a world in which Georgetown is a good basketball team. Yikes. Anyway, they aren’t, so Xavier got away with one tonight. Joel said Xavier faceplanted across the line, but that would seem to imply that they had … [Read more...] about Xavier 74-69 Georgetown: LaPhonso Ellis finds love, but it’s Xavier who finds the win
Looking at the week ahead
What a resurgence this would be | Steven Branscombe-Imagn Images One big chance remains There is a temptation to take a sigh of relief as a Xavier fan right now. The Four Games are in the rearview, the season is now salvageable, if not yet salvaged, and the road ahead isn’t laden with the same level of competition as the first half of the Big East season was. Xavier has … [Read more...] about Looking at the week ahead
Xavier v. Creighton: Preview, matchups, keys to the game
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