Xavier’s win over Nova raised expectations more than it raised the KenPom numbers. X stays in solid position but lags behind its real-life place on the S-curve.
Back to earth, sports fans! As awesome as last night was, when the story of this season is written it will be a footnote to a footnote. The Big East Tournament - in which Xavier just clinched no worse than a second seed - is coming down the pike, and beyond that is the NCAA Tournament (perhaps you've heard of it?). Rightly or not, history is written in March in college basketball, and the first step towards that history is filling out the bracket.