With 14 minutes to play, Xavier led Marquette by a score of 53-48. Colby Jones had just scored a little jumper and then assisted Jack Nunge on a wide-open three that the big man duly knocked down. This was Xavier’s high water mark.
It hadn’t all been smooth sailing to get there. After Travis Steele spoke pre-game about Xavier’s slow starts and what the staff was going to do to combat them, Xavier got off to another slow start. Featuring the same starting lineup - Scruggs, Johnson, Jones, Hunter, Freemantle - and the same substitution patterns - there’s Jack Nunge!