It is fair to say that pretty much every fear that Xavier fans would have had coming in to the DePaul game came true last night. Xavier was sloppy, occasionally disinterested, and not terribly inclined to play defense for long stretches of the game. Despite that, Xavier won by 11. Such is the benefit of playing DePaul.
None of those issues are to say that the Musketeers were ever in great danger of losing the game. Ken Pomeroy’s algorithm had Xavier with a 95% chance of victory when the game started. That number dipped as low as 92%, but no lower.