What do you want out of a basketball game? Some excitement? A few great shots? Maybe a dunk or Nate Watson getting humiliated? At the end you probably want some sense that the better team won the game and that the outcome reflects what happened on the court. More and more frequently, that’s not what you are getting when you tune into a game. It, obviously, isn’t just happening to Xavier, but that’s where we’ll focus.
John Cahill assigns referees as the Supervisor of Officials for the Big East. What, exactly, that entails is hard to determine.