The stage is set for a high-level clash between the Big East’s top two teams, No. 5 Xavier and No. 1 Villanova, and there’s one thing the clubs have in common entering Wednesday’s 7 p.m. outing at Cintas Center.
They’re not putting much stock in what happened in Game One.
The Wildcats thumped the Musketeers by 31 points Dec. 31 after point guard Edmond Sumner suffered a concussion early in the conference opener. Xavier trailed by as many as 33 points in its first loss of the season.
“People ask me all the time, ‘Do you think the game would have ended differently had Edmond not gotten hurt?