INDIANAPOLIS – Xavier men's basketball didn't go quietly.
The Musketeers can at least say that much of Saturday's 83-78 loss at Butler University's Hinkle Fieldhouse, but not much else.
Xavier again played a solid first half against one of the Big East Conference's elites, but again stumbled mightily in the second half.
A late Xavier surge saw the No. 15 Musketeers (13-4, 3-2 Big East) come within a whisker of stealing the game in the last minute, but No. 12 Butler (15-3, 4-2 Big East) held on to win, 83-78, before a sellout crowd of 9,166.