A player-by-player breakdown of Xavier's 2018-2019 basketball roster Adam Baum, abaum@enquirer.com
Confidence can come from unexpected places.
It can appear out of thin air for no particular reason. Most of the time, though, confidence is chiseled and hardened over time out of work that's done when no one else is watching.
What some are given for free, others must pay a heavy price.
Naji Marshall had to create confidence. He wasn't handed the price of admission, he had to earn it, and because it was uncertain, and it didn't come easy, Marshall's confidence is the quiet kind.