Well done

[Xavier]

Making the tournament is always the expectation. Losing your starting center (for the second year in a row) was tough. Still, it shouldn’t be enough to derail the team. I’m by no means saying it was a slam dunk season because we made the tournament. But…

It was a damn good turn round. After the home loss to St John’s where we looked awful, I don’t think anyone really expected a tournament team. The team easily could’ve folded. It was the first time I started to really have a small seed of doubt about Miller. To Sean and the teams credit, they really did a great job the rest of the season. The team responded well. Sean having the team get better as season went on and playing its best bball late in the year. That’s a good sign.

It’s not over yet. I see no reason why we can’t beat Texas and Illinois. Kentucky injuries have really made them a shell of themselves. They are beatable.

[hoopster68]

The Steele Curse was just overcome. Go X!

[MHettel]

Making the tournament is always the expectation. Losing your starting center (for the second year in a row) was tough. Still, it shouldn’t be enough to derail the team. I’m by no means saying it was a slam dunk season because we made the tournament. But…

It was a damn good turn round. After the home loss to St John’s where we looked awful, I don’t think anyone really expected a tournament team. The team easily could’ve folded. It was the first time I started to really have a small seed of doubt about Miller. To Sean and the teams credit, they really did a great job the rest of the season. The team responded well. Sean having the team get better as season went on and playing its best bball late in the year. That’s a good sign.

It’s not over yet. I see no reason why we can’t beat Texas and Illinois. Kentucky injuries have really made them a shell of themselves. They are beatable.

Did we “gel” or what!

[Olsingledigit]

Congrats to the team and Miller. A great result that will help portal recruiting and I a happy for Free that he gets to play in the tournament

[drudy23]

The Steele Curse was just overcome. Go X!

Hopefully this allows me to move on from the Steele PTSD.

[bjf123]

Hopefully this allows me to move on from the Steele PTSD.

That’s redundant. For us, it’s really Post Traumatic Steele Disorder.


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[X-band '01]

We were very close to seeing Xavier out and Miami in.

[Xville]

Well done is right. It’s the first stepping stone to reclaiming what was our storied tradition of going to the tourney almost every year. Two years ago was nice, but it starts back up right here. I’d of course love to do first four to final four but I hope at worst this is a building block for the future to get to where we should and need to be year in and year out.

[D-West & PO-Z]

Awesome. Huge turnaround this season. Well done by Miller.

Also amazing that all the sweating I did int he Memphis game and VCU game was for naught. X was NOT one of the last 2 teams in. We would have made it even with 2 bid stealers today.

[MHettel]

Wondering what the predictors missed on WVU.

They were not really in the bubble mix.

Maybe the stench of Huggins? dance with the devil….