Xavier's Fruitless Walk in the Desert

With the desert sun burning down on their backs, the Xavier Musketeers were subjected to a four-game sweep at Arizona State.

According to this little book called the Bible (best selling book of all-time, no big deal), Jesus walked through the desert for 40 days and that event is commemorated in the Catholic tradition of Lent.

Pardon my blaspheming, but Xavier just finished making its way through a desert of its own. It was one made mostly by its own hands, but visiting Tempe, Arizona to play Arizona State also makes the desert much more than a convenient metaphor. On average, Tempe gets 1.14 inches of rain during the month of February, and it rarely gets much lower than 73 degrees during the…