The Spartans rose from fourth in this week's USA TODAY Sports men's college basketball coaches poll after Villanova, Virginia and Purdue all fell. USA TODAY Sports
As Xavier basketball continues its drive for the Big East Conference regular season title, the Seton Hall University Pirates are fading fast.
That'll happen in Big East play, especially later in the year as teams naturally start to separate themselves. But the thing that makes the contrast between Xavier and Seton Hall so stark is that the teams were picked in preseason by the league's coaches to finish second and third in the standings.