Over the last few days, Xavier was part of a group of NCAA Tournament bubble teams that explored the possibility of playing one another to potentially strengthen their NCAA Tournament resumes.
Conferences took different views of the way NCAA rules would interpret these games and late Thursday, the NCAA shared with conferences that these games would not be permitted.
Xavier lost 70-69 to Butler on Wednesday in the first round of the Big East Conference Tournament and the Musketeers were working with other bubble teams to try and add games ahead of Selection Sunday.