ORLANDO — You don't get a trophy for winning your opening weekend, four-team NCAA Tournament pod, but doing so definitely gets you closer to a trophy.
That's where Xavier men's basketball is now. It's heading west to San Jose and the 2017 NCAA Tournament West Region's second weekend. The Musketeers are within touching distance of tournament glory like the program's never experienced before.
They got here by running riot in Orlando, where they convincingly out-gunned a West Region pod that included No. 3-seeded Florida State University, No. 6-seeded Maryland and No. 14-seeded Florida Gulf Coast.