I’m not going to sugarcoat it for you, kid, that was bad. Xavier was 64.3% to lose at the start of the game according KenPom’s win probability charts. Twice they flipped that number over: once leading 21-12 in the first half, once when leading 46-42 with less than 15 minutes to play. A 29-10 run later and X had gone from being the favorite to win the game to trailing by 18 and being dead and buried. When you gather around the water cooler (or communion table?) today, here’s the talking points that dominated the game.
1. Xavier’s bigs vanished:
7/15/0.