2016 Xavier basketball player preview: Quentin Goodin

There are a million and one tiny differentiators that add up between a major team and a mid-major one, and one of those is guards who can dunk in traffic. I can count on zero hands the number of times I saw Lionel Chalmers bounce into the lane and rise above a crowd, but everyone who saw Ed Sumner score the final meaningful bucket of last season's Crosstown Shootout knew which team was the real big boy and which one was a flat-track bully. If your point guard can leave a body bag in the lane like that, well... that kind of talent doesn't often find its way out of the major conferences.

That brings us to Quentin Goodin. He's a strong, physical guard who can get into the lane and finish above…