If you have a dear friend that you want to start cheering for Xavier, maybe don’t show them this game. The Musketeers shot horribly, played bad defense at times, and looked wretched for 45 minutes. Somehow, they won. The officiating wasn’t good, the quality of basketball wasn’t good, it’s Xavier that heads back to hotels with a win.
Coach Mack is a set piece genius
Forgive the quality of this video, but sometimes in a game like this, one coach has to flip the right switch to get the job done. With 1.7 on the clock in a tie game, Xavier did this with a sideline out:
In the possession prior to that, Kim Anderson had switched his team from the zone that had pushed Xavier to 2-22 from deep into a man to man.