Xavier basketball's Kerem Kanter, Trevon Bluiett and Sean O'Mara discuss the program's first-ever NCAA one-seed during a March 11 press conference at Cintas Center. Pat Brennan / The Enquirer
There are plenty of good reasons to like top-seeded Xavier University basketball to emerge from the 2018 NCAA Tournament's West Region and advance to the Final Four.
Thing is, no one on the actual Xavier team or team staff is thinking about the Final Four yet. Not by a longshot.
Xavier head coach Chris Mack (and others) compartmentalizes the monumental task of navigating the NCAA Tournament by limiting his team's focus to their bracket "pod.