At some point during that two and a half hours of misery last night, announcer Nick Bahe said that Xavier was safe in the tournament as long they “don’t have a collapse.” While Nick should be shown some consideration for his apparently unquenchable optimism, he was blissfully unaware of the carnage around him. Xavier has already collapsed. It can get worse, yes, it can, but the wheels are off and the car has hurtled into a bridge abutment.
Xavier needs three now:
As things stand, Joe Lunardi has Xavier in one of the play-in games, Jerry Palm has them as a falling ten seed, and Chris Dobbertean has them right on the edge of the bubble as well.