Kyky Tandy arrived at Xavier with a lot of hype. He was at least a four star recruit in every service and had landed comfortably inside the ESPN top 100. Viral highlights of his high school exploits filtered on to Twitter every week. At one point he banged his chin on the rim dunking. He was a sure thing so far as recruits go.
Tandy’s first season started rocky. An injury kept him out of Xavier’s first seven games and his start was slow after that. By the time Big East play got rolling, though, he was coming into his own.