Ken Pomeroy’s website has a system for naming the MVP of any given game played at the D1 level. He explains the formula here, but just know it’s one of a million ways a person could try to objectively identify the best player in the game.
Naji Marshall has one. It came against ETSU, when Naji’s 15/5/ on a scintillating 5-6/1-1/4-4 shooting dragged Xavier back from the brink of a borderline inexplicable home loss. That performance and the below quote in the presser were when I really started to take notice of the idea that Naj was something other than “just” a good freshman.