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Inside Xavier basketball's summer workouts

The Enquirer/Patrick Brennan

Sean O'Mara's meaty, 6-foot-10 frame was never intended to be used for tumbling on recreational mats in the style of a Jiu Jitsu fighter, and yet there he was – face red, a thin glaze of sweat forming on his brow, hunched on the ground and laboring to tuck his left arm back toward his right hip in order to perform a tumble.

Xavier men's basketball, for which O'Mara is a senior forward, has arrived to the Kohlhepp Family Auxiliary Gym for its 9 a.