This wasn’t entirely unforeseeable, but it still wasn’t fun to watch. The last gift this undermanned, battered iteration of the Musketeers gave to the fan base was hope.
Action Network's Doug Ziefel has college basketball odds, pick and prediction for Xavier vs. Butler on Wednesday, March 13.
Not enough dudes. On December 14, 1912, Lieutenant Belgrave Ninnis of the Far Eastern Party of the Australasian Antarctic expedition fell through a crevasse and passed away, taking his sled and most of the party's supplies with him.
Xavier has been bad before, rarely have they seemed so uninspired. This article is going to read as very critical of Xavier basketball. In a lot of ways it is.
Xavier gets run off the court early in a disheartening loss to Butler. Somewhere Dailyn Swain is recovering from a surgery that pulled his abdomen open.
Action Network's Sean Paul has odds, picks and predictions for Xavier vs. Butler on Wednesday, March 6.
Xavier’s unfairly maligned sophomore exploded in the second half of a must win game for Xavier. Desmond Claude is a polarizing player. To the unwashed Twitter masses he’s an unrepentant gunner who shoots too much and is a disappointing player in his freshman year.
Action Network's Matt Gannon has odds, picks and predictions in his Xavier vs. Marquette betting preview for Sunday, Feb. 25.
Xavier’s coach finally said what we’ve all been thinking. “That’s five fouls in a row.” That’s what Sean Miller said to the referees last night in what was, frankly speaking, a horribly officiated game.
Not with a bang, but a whimper Shape without form, shade without colour, paralysed force, gesture without motion That is actually a couplet from a poem by TS Eliot, not a description of Xavier’s offense in the second half.
The Musketeers have some very heavy lifting to do I am not, by nature, a negative person. Sure, that’s the role I play on the podcast and how the rest of the staff here sees me, but I always think the best will eventually happen.
With apologies to Seal, miracles will only happen for Xavier if things get a little nuts. We’re past the point where the normal things changing are going to work.
It’s basically a series of at-large elimination games from here on out. That was it. Xavier got destroyed last night in a game they needed to have against Seton Hall.
We’ve kept saying Xavier has the chances to complete their resume, but time is running out. At some point hope has to turn into something, or it just remains a fantasy.
The Xavier Musketeers (12-10, 6-5 Big East) host the Villanova Wildcats (12-10, 5-6 Big East) after winning three straight home games. The Musketeers are favored by just 3 points in the contest, which starts at 7:00 PM ET on Wednesday, February 7, 2024.
The last month of the season is going to be a wild ride for Xavier fans. TI’s cousin used to tell him to take this [stuff] a day at a time. While the King of the South may not have been in reference to college basketball in Rubber Band Man, that particular mantra definitely applies for Xavier this year.
When the going got tough, the Muskies answered the bell. The first 36:09 of this game were insufficient to separate these two teams. Entering the final media timeout, the gap between them was no different than it was at the start of the game.
Things were going well. Now they aren’t. Remember all that discussion last year of “good losses” and playing the excellent teams tough? Whatever happened on Sunday was the opposite of that.
Top-25 teams will hit the court in five games on Sunday’s college basketball slate. That includes the Xavier Musketeers squaring off against the UConn Huskies at XL Center.
Sunday’s college basketball slate includes one game featuring Big East teams on the court, and we’re here to help you with best bets. That matchup? The Xavier Musketeers squaring off against the UConn Huskies.
The No. 1 UConn Huskies (17-2, 7-1 Big East) are heavy favorites (-11) as they try to continue an 11-game home winning streak when they take on the Xavier Musketeers (10-9, 4-4 Big East) on Sunday, January 28, 2024 at XL Center.
Xavier has four bench guys, each with their own positives and glaring flaws. After the Creighton game Joel wrote a really good article about how Xavier has good pieces on the team, but those pieces are being asked to be things they aren’t.
The Big East Rankings continue, and the Xavier Musketeers are the next team ranked in the Big East rankings. The Musketeers are coming off a strong season in 2022-2023, and do lose many of their top players.
No. 16 Xavier is hoping to overcome a rash of injuries and illnesses when it hosts Villanova on Tuesday night in a Big East matchup in Cincinnati.
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