The Crosstown Shootout is frequently decided by fine margins. Who gets back on defense, who picks up fewer technical fouls, who adjusts to Lenny Brown in the lane, who throws the first punch, who runs the city, things like that. Yesterday’s edition was no exception to this rule. Xavier won by eight in a game that could have gone either way because they got the little things right and because they had the players to do it.
Travis Steele has, rightly and wrongly, taken a lot of criticism in his first two years on the job at Xavier.