Xavier has long been the plucky underdog come March, punching above their weight with the heavy hitters of college basketball and making run after run into the second weekend of the tournament in consistent defiance of the odds. Not anymore. Xavier begins NCAA Tournament play today as a member of the Big East, a power conference with a rich basketball history and 11 entrants into the field over the past two seasons, and sporting a two seed, the highest in program history. Over the course of the past 20 years, beginning with the move from the MCC to the A-10, Xavier's profile has continued on the trajectory Skip Prosser set it on and today brings another step to becoming a nationally recognized power.
2016 NCAA tournament Xavier v. Weber State preview
