Know Your Non-conference Opponent: West Virginia

“I’M SO EXCITED TO BE HEADING TO WEST VIRGINIA!”The Big East-Big 12 Battle is heading into its fourth season in 2022. It kicked off in 2019, when the Big East enjoyed a dominant 8-2 margin in 10 games; even Georgetown and DePaul won that year! Since, the conferences have split 8-8 and tied overall both years. Perhaps the best part of the whole thing is that Xavier has never once been drawn to play Wisconsin.

West Virginia is Xavier’s opponent this year, marking the second event - along with the Phil Knight Invitational - that has both teams in the pool. It’s distinctly unlikely but certainly not impossible that the teams meet in that event; they are almost guaranteed to meet in this one. As…