Xavier v. St John's Game Thread (January 17, 2018)

[X Factor]

After that spectacular display of defense, X dropped to #73 in KenPom's defensive rankings. That's not going to get X very far in the post-season.

[AviatorX]

After that spectacular display of defense, X dropped to #73 in KenPom's defensive rankings. That's not going to get X very far in the post-season.

Took them to the Elite 8 last year. Duke's in the same boat.

[X Factor]

Took them to the Elite 8 last year. Duke's in the same boat.

Duke won't go anywhere with their defense either, although they have a few lottery picks on their team.

Last year's team was better defensively than this team is right now. Still room for improvement. Why settle?

[Backyard Champ]

It's strange- feel like when this team is fired up on the defensive end, they are pretty good. Problem is, they aren't always fired up to play defense. So, we CAN be a good defensive team. At the same time, we have long periods where we can't get a stop, and we don't make it hard to score on us.

[GIMMFD]

We won, it was shitty, it wasn't good, but we won. Tre had another good game, Scruggs is showing promise, Kanter is emerging as a legitimate 3rd scoring threat. It's hard to get up for a team that's lost their last 6 games. We won. All that matters.

[XUFan09]

Expect X to also have a poor showing against Georgetown. Heck, they might have a bad showing in the return games versus DePaul and St. John's, despite already playing them close. This X team plays really loose against bad teams. When the bad team actually has some talent, they can make the game interesting.

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[GoMuskies]

Not very good, but I like winning!

[slysyl]

ST John is very quick and X is not and it really showed last night;but it is a win. Go XAVIER.

[throwbackmuskie]

More than anything, St John's length bothered X last night. At this point, everyone in the BE is going to being their best in games vs X and Nova, we saw that last night, Simon had this best game ever, X had a hand in his face and still he made shots, 12-16. Ponds on the other hand was the guy X focuses on shutting down and get a pretty good job of it, 6-20 shooting for him.

[bleedXblue]

More than anything, St John's length bothered X last night. At this point, everyone in the BE is going to being their best in games vs X and Nova, we saw that last night, Simon had this best game ever, X had a hand in his face and still he made shots, 12-16. Ponds on the other hand was the guy X focuses on shutting down and get a pretty good job of it, 6-20 shooting for him.

Yeah, but Nova just dispatches pretty much everyone.

I don't for a second think that teams see us and Nova on the same level.