For as long as we’ve been doing these projections for Xavier’s bubble chances, this game at the Garden has been counting as a loss. The major projection services thought Xavier would lose, the line was against them, they were supposed to lose. Not a big loss, but a loss. Instead, they went to one of the most historically hostile arenas in college basketball, played a bad game, and still won. In doing so, they changed their bubble projections yet again.
Now, using the same game projections we have thus far, Xavier is basically a lock. Before any more games are played X is at an 86.