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I’m sure Sean can speak to the stress and scrutiny that comes with a job like that as well. This was a long time ago, but there was a point where Mack was getting fed up with the fanbases criticisms...

Xavier would have a 57% chance of beating Butler and 60% of beating Seton Hall according to Kenpom. We have a 28% chance of beating Villanova.

I would love to add Gonzaga. Go to 20 games, which seems to be the way things are headed. Everyone says itd be too tough with the travel but Hawaii is in a league with California teams and they...

Wait you didnt tune in to see Dayton get rolled by 25?

People are inevitably going to be concerned that this happened at Xavier, but I just dont see it. The money is coming from shoe companies and agents, who target potential NBA kids early to sign them...

That said, UNC and Gonzaga had Top 100 tempos last year. I dont think this is a case of having a fast tempo putting you at a disadvantage in March. Most good teams just dont really play at a very...

I wrote an article about this a couple years ago. I will say that Kenpom changes his formula from time to time so the numbers may be a little different now.
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Youre looking at data from after the tournament. If you look at where teams are before the tournament, most F4 teams are not elite defensively. In general though, I dont put a lot of stock into all...

The bigger question is how did he play 19 minutes a game last year, and 10 and 4 minutes as a sophomore and freshman respectively.

Helps. The committee sorts wins and losses into tiers. Any top 50 loss on a neutral court is a tier one loss, which basically means it doesn’t really hurt you. ASU losing to Colorado doesn’t change...

Through 16 games as a Freshman:
Goodin: 15.8 minutes, 55.6% from 2, 46.7% from the line, averaging 1.9 assists, 1.4 TO, 1.4 Rebounds, and 3.1 points per game
Scruggs: 16.2 minutes, 55.6% from 2,...

The rumors are he had big time drug issues at Kansas. Hopefully he gets the help he needs and figured things out, but I don’t think a big time program is gonna take him.

I’d recommend reading “Xavier Tales” by Michael Perry. It’s a really good book on XU history starting with the late 50s. You can get it for under 10 on Amazon.

The 1-3-1 held Marquette’s best 3 players to 9-30 from behind the arc, so I’d call that a success. The rest of the team shot 6-9, which is a risk you take. There’s no foolproof gameplan. We forced...

Yup. It’s pretty simple. Marquette has 3 players which average 70% of their points. Those players shot 21 of 49 for 43% from the field today. That’s why they lost.

If I was a Marquette fan I would be upset with the officiating. The refs missed a few big calls that favored X down the stretch, and when refs miss calls in a loss it’s easy to point the finger. ...

There were a lot of no calls. Marquette came out pretty agressive and got some early fouls which seemed to scare the refs into swallowing their whistles to prevent certain players from having to sit....

Xavier outrebounded them 37 to 34. My personal opinion would be that the rebounding seemed a little worse because Marquette shot so many 3s and giving up rebounds on 3s feels more painful. Xavier...

I think it helps with recruiting but I’m not sure it really moves the needle for XU. Dayton would probably be the biggest beneficiary there, as they’d get an extra nationally televised game. It...

That’s exactly what he wants to do. If it were up to Mick he would cancel the shootout. It was pretty public knowledge after the brawl that Mick was adamant about canceling the series. A lot of fans...

Mick and UC fans are desperate for a new rival to downplay the fact that their old rival (UL) left them in the dust and their only remaining rival is kicking their ass on a yearly basis.

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I feel really strongly that recruiting one and dones is a waste of time for this program for this reason. If we had landed Kobi Simmons we probably don’t make the Elite last year and we’re probably...

I’m assuming you’re talking 2015/2016, the two seed. They finished 14, which is Xavier’s highest finish ever (only goes back to 2002 FWIW.) During the season, they were as high as 7 after the Wake...

How many teams are we going to play all of next year that have more talent than Goodin, Jones, Gates, Scruggs, and Marshall? Maybe two or three? Obviously talent doesn’t equal wins but I still think...

The elite 8 run quickly made people forget how miserable it was for a preseason top 10 team to lose 10 out of 15 games at one point. 2015 was a much more enjoyable season. Running Dayton out of the...