Game Thread: Xavier v Marquette University (3/9/2024)

[paulxu]

VS.


CINCINNATI --- The Xavier University Musketeers, 15-15 overall and 9-10 in the BIG EAST Conference, close out the regular season on Saturday at 5 p.m. at Cintas Center against the Marquette University Golden Eagles, 22-8 overall and 13-6 in the BIG EAST. The Golden Eagles are ranked No. 8 in the AP Poll and No. 9 in the USA Today Coaches Poll.

Xavier will celebrate seven seniors in pregame "Senior Day" festivities that are set to start at 4:40 p.m. Xavier will honor student-athletes Brad Colbert (Loveland, Oho) and Quincy Olivari (Atlanta, Ga.) as well as managers Isaac Fiely (Meadville, Pa.), Bobby Gerity (West Hartford, Conn.), Max Meyer (Cincinnati), Michael Witt (Cincinnati) and Paxton Wong (Boston, Mass.).

THE MATCHUP

XAVIER UNIVERSITY MUSKETEERS (15-15, 9-10 BIG EAST)
NO. 8/9 MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY GOLDEN EAGLES (22-8, 13-6 BIG EAST)
SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 2024 AT 5:00 P.M. ET
CINTAS CENTER IN CINCINNATI, OHIO

TV, RADIO AND LIVE STATS

Television: FOX National, including FOX 19 in Cincinnati, with play-by-play from Jason Benetti and analysis from Robbie Hummel.
Xavier Radio: 55KRC-AM with play-by-play from Xavier Hall of Famer
Joe Sunderman ('79) analysis from XU all-time leading scorer and Hall of Famer Byron Larkin ('88). XU broadcast is also on the Varsity Network and on SXM.
Live Stats: Media stats at Statbroadcast.com and fan stats at GoXavier.com.

[paulxu]

Does the fact that we are not recognizing all the other players listed as seniors or grad students on the roster, mean they are all returning?

[JTG]

Does the fact that we are not recognizing all the other players listed as seniors or grad students on the roster, mean they are all returning?

Who? Free & Hunter.

[Xville]

Thanks for this season, Paul! Somehow x is only 2.5 dogs. Really seems like easy money, but maybe Cintas magic will somehow return today

[drudy23]

Creighton beats Nova at 2:30pm - it energizes us to beat Marquette at 5pm, and then UConn takes care of business this evening.

7 seed locked in, and the Miracle @ MSG is in play.

So it's written, so it's true.

[X-band '01]

A win today (coupled with a Villanova loss at home and a Providence loss at home vs. UConn) would create a 3-way tie for 6th place among the three teams. Villanova would be #6, Xavier would be #7 and Providence would be #8 in that scenario. Theoretically, St. John's could also make it a 4-way tie, but there's next to no chance they lose at home against Georgetown.

Big difference between a potential matchup with Butler in Round 1 as opposed to Georgetown.

[GoMuskies]

And a second round matchup against UConn vs a second round matchup against literally anyone else.

[paulxu]

I remain confused about Xavier's "Senior" day.
Both seniors being honored, played one year for Xavier. Olivari actually had 4 years at Rice. Colbert had at least 2 years at Louisville.
The following are shown as "Seniors" or "Grad Students" on the official roster, but for some reason aren't being honored.

Jerome Hunter
Dayvion McKnight
Abou Ousmane
Zach Freemantle
Gytis Nemeikša

It may be the way of the world that we'll never have another senior day, honoring an actual player who went to school for 4 years at X...and graduated.

[Xville]

I remain confused about Xavier's "Senior" day.
Both seniors being honored, played one year for Xavier. Olivari actually had 4 years at Rice. Colbert had at least 2 years at Louisville.
The following are shown as "Seniors" or "Grad Students" on the official roster, but for some reason aren't being honored.

Jerome Hunter
Dayvion McKnight
Abou Ousmane
Zach Freemantle
Gytis Nemeikša

It may be the way of the world that we'll never have another senior day, honoring an actual player who went to school for 4 years at X...and graduated.

Everyone else will either be back for their last year at x or somewhere else

[bjf123]

Had a little pregame stress arriving at Cintas. The parking pass is usually on the phone screen and I just tap it. Today, it was only the tickets on the screen. Had to go digging to find the pass as we were approaching the lot. Seems the tickets had updated to the 5:00PM game time, but the parking pass said TBA so it wasn’t ready to show. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


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