It’s about to go off. There are 8 conference tournaments having games contested today. Tomorrow there will be 12. On Thursday there will be 17. Today is, in a sense, the last big inhale before the dive.
Right now, the margins could not be more fine for Xavier. They’re currently on 86 of the 133 brackets posted on the Bracket Matrix. They’re the last of the last four in by that measure. Of course there are too many moving parts for that to stick. Xavier’s resume will necessarily change, as will that of the teams around them.
The good news is that early returns haven’t been good for bid pirates.