This isn’t going to go down as one of those Xavier tournament wins for the ages. It won’t be the K-State game, and Gus Johnson wasn’t involved. However, all tournament wins count the same for what truly matters, they all lead to a survive and advance. Xavier prevailed tonight by doing the things that the Big East forces their teams to do.
The kid may have more impressive games in terms point total, but he ran the show tonight. At least one of his turnovers came on an utterly absurd call in which he was run over and then called for traveling.