Water Cooler Takes: Better, but not good

This seems like the kind of season where someone would be injured by getting his head caught in the net.Today the gathering may be more communion table than water cooler, but that’s no reason not to talk about Xavier basketball. Yesterday the Musketeers were faced with one of those games that had no really helpful outcome. Beating DePaul is de rigueur but losing to them is the ultimate death knell. The Musketeers at least managed to stave off NCAA tournament at-large elimination for another day, but they stare down the same barrel again at 930 on Wednesday.

Winning this did nothing to help Xavier on the bubble:

No one who saw that game thought “oh yes, that is a team that we must have in the…