The season, for most purposes, starts now. Xavier has played some good teams to this point, but Baylor is a step up in class that is something akin to going from playing in the Atlantic 10 to the Big East, or the AAC to [this joke deleted]. Baylor has beaten Oregon, VCU, Michigan State, and Louisville already, three of those on neutral courts. Xavier now gets them at home, where they dispatched the Ducks by 17.
Xavier hasn’t been slouching thus far, either, beating no one worse than the Tigers of Missouri, beating Clemson, and rolling a very good UNI team.