How to beat (or lose to) UC

"Breath check: can you tell what I've been gobbling?"It's Shootout Week, as indeed it has been all week, and the game itself is quickly approaching. Xavier is 6-3, with three of the best losses a team could possibly compile. It's almost impossible to not be proud of those losses (or so I've been told on Twitter).

All hyperbole about good losses aside, Xavier has lost to three teams whose KenPom rankings average less than 11. Cincinnati's is currently 71. No doubt a setback here would be a giant black mark on the Muskies' record; it would take Xavier from having no losses outside of Q1 to having 1 all the way down in Q3. It's a fraught occasion.

So what does X have to do to avoid the…