Exempt events are always fun, and this year Xavier will be heading to Charleston for the Charleston Classic on the ESPN family of networks. The bracket features possible matchups against mid-major powers like Buffalo and UConn (coming soon to a power conference near you!) and maybe the best team in the nation in Florida. To get to those games, though, Xavier first has to take on Towson, one of the top three teams in the Colonial Athletic Conference.
Towson is coached by Pat Skerry, who has been head man there since 2011. He ran the gamut of assistant jobs at everywhere from Tufts University to Pitt - with a stop as a D3 head coach at Curry College - before stepping into his current role.