If there is only one non-basketball thing you take your family to watch the Xavier basketball team do this year, the World Series should be it. Today at 3PM at Hayden Field, the team will put on their annual public demonstration of exactly why it is they play basketball. While middle-aged dudes all over the nation have no trouble crushing a softball, even after the occasional adult beverage or six, some of the most finely tuned athletes in the nation will spend today making that task look almost impossible.
JP Macura and Sean O’Mara will undoubtedly again set the bar for the players, and Xavier’s coaching staff may be just as comfortable on a softball diamond as they are recruiting.