With the schedule now fully together, it's time for us to start picking it apart. First up: the Lehigh Mountain Hawks.
Lehigh will be Xavier's season opener this year, and they're coming off an interesting campaign in their own right. They were dreadful through 20 games, sitting at 6-14 with losses to St. Francis (PA), Robert Morris, and Loyola (MD) on the resume. Then something flipped a switch, because they ripped off 11 consecutive victories before falling by a single basket to Holy Cross in the Patriot League Tournament final. Lehigh had the ball with 17 seconds to play and managed to go 0-4 on game-tying field goal attempts in a single possession.