How much can you really learn from a game like this? Xavier took on a team they should have crushed, and they crushed them. If you could figure out a lot from stomping cupcakes, scheduling a bunch of them to start your season would be a wise and viable strategy.
Xavier opened the game on a 7-0 run and was up 21-13 after 15 possessions. It wasn’t quite the wire-to-wire blowout that X had last Saturday, but they were comfortably in control except for a let down in the middle of the first half that saw Kent State draw to within 5.