Game Thread: Xavier v. Michigan (11/27/2024)

[bleedXblue]

Bench just has to be better. Period.

Swain played like a p***y. We need him to be that slasher and aggressive guy and he took ONE shot last night. Unacceptable.

Green is not a high level D1 PG or SG. Wish I was wrong there....but he simply isnt. He doesnt create at all for other players and doesnt have the physical tools to create his own shots. He cant defend, so what does that leave you?

Agree that was a bad match up. But we should have been a bad match up for them? Where was Sean last night? Where was some full court pressure to change the pace and get their big guys in sport where they werent comfortable?

Move on. Hoping it was a wake up call. It's still November.......

[Jumpin_Jamal_Forever]

Drudy---think you hit the Truth Trifecta with those three posts. Cannot refute or critique any of your comments. But, by the end of the season, I hope Green and Hugely prove you (and all of us) wrong.

Stop thinking too hard. Michigan is good!!! How can you stop two 7 footers when you have no real big guys of your own. X is going to struggle all year vs big teams. Michigan is an awful matchup. Good news for X is the rest of the BEAST looks awful too.

OTR----you seem to be saying that X is over-rated and maybe we are. I hope not. Still, we must try to find a way to win even if the matchups are not in our favor. Happens all the time. I recall a couple off the top of my head which I will never forget: Nova v Georgetown and NC State v Houston, both National Championship games. There are many others of course. If we expect to lose every unfavorable matchup, why play?

BleedXBlue----I want to know the answers to your questions. Why were we not an unfavorable matchup for Michigan? Where was Sean last night?

Nobody over-react. I concur we are lucky to have Miller as our coach. But I would still love to know what our game plan was going into last night's game, our expectations and what changes did Miller install (or try to install) when it became clear we were being overwelmed?

[X-band '01]

Once again the curse of the holiday tournament rears its ugly head on X. We again get our asses handed to us. I would just as soon we skip these things and schedule a couple A10 or MAC level home games. I guess they are a recruiting tool, but I get tired of losing every year. Even when we are good, we seem to throw up on ourselves. As for Hugley, maybe staying at 280 would have been the better idea. Getting used to his current body size is obviously taking a toll on his effectiveness. And having Conwell spell McKnight does seem like a better idea than Green at the point.
And on a side note, How in the world did Wake beat Michigan?

4 years ago, Xavier played 3 home games in a round-robin MTE against 3 buy-game level teams (and that was only because it was a Covid season). Gonna disagree vehemently here.

It's never a bad thing to expose the team to varying styles of play. They answered the bell for one game and didn't the next. Move on to the next buy game and get ready for their first true road test at TCU.

[waggy]

With 7:18 left in the game the score was 59-51. Wolf had hit 4 3’s and Zach was Ofer. Just saying.

Michigans pressure on the perimeter was excellent tho. Maybe we were their superbowl