“Everything ends badly, otherwise it wouldn’t end.”
That’s not always strictly true - Villanova’s season ended last year, for instance - but it’s true the majority of the time. It will be true for 67 of the 68 teams in this year’s tournament and something on the order of 345 of the 351 teams in Division 1. It was true of Xavier’s season tonight.
Xavier’s season could have ended sometime this summer, when Myles Davis did whatever it was that he did to run afoul of the law. It should have ended against St. John’s, when Ed went down and it was clear he wasn’t getting back up.