This is the nature of the college game at this point in time. A decade ago, the major concern was whether or not a guy who had the ability to transfer would think it was worth sitting out a season to ...

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 ...

The modern game of basketball increasingly revolves around an arc. Teams go positionless, bigs shoot threes, guards shoot a lot of threes, Steph Curry skips around gleefully, heaving from anywhere he ...

I am currently in Gettysburg, Pa. This is my third trip to the battlefield. I’ve led a tour here, I’ve been here as a kid and an adult, I really enjoy the place and the history. I say this to say that ...

There are no secrets in a conference tournament, not one like the Big East Tournament. The perfect symmetry of the double round robin comes home to roost as the countdown to the selection show turns ...

If you’re on this website, chances are you’ve watched a good deal of Xavier basketball. You probably watched last year and the year before, despite the fact that it wasn’t always particularly ...

I was listening to Dayton’s own Guided by Voices the other day when I heard Robert Pollard plaintively sing everybody’s got a hold on hope/ it’s the last thing that’s holding me. I don’t know whether ...

One thing Xavier still needed was a little depth. Sure, they had retained their best player and the guy who was supposed to be their best player, added a point guard, added an elite defender, and ...

Xavier stands at 4-3 after 7 games right now. The last time they were at 4-3 7 games in was last year, a season that ended in the Sweet 16. This team is not that one, but it’s also probably useful to ...

So this Richard Pitino guy might have a bit about him. Xavier has landed Tru Washington from the portal. That means that the roster currently stands at eight players, with Kason Westphal hanging in ...

If only DePaul and Georgetown weren’t around. The Big East is comprised of 11 teams, nine of whom are in the top 80 of the KenPom. That’s only marginally behind the SEC (11 in the top 80), the Big Ten ...

We’ll cover this in more detail later, but Xavier has announced who they are playing this season. There are no exhibition games this season, just a couple of closed scrimmages. The initial release ...