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Welcome to the party: Xavier's newcomers impress in first Crosstown Shootout

"You think you'll get in?"

That was one of the first questions Greg Kunkel had for his son, Adam, on Saturday afternoon – the day before the Crosstown Shootout – when Kunkel called his dad to tell him that his waiver for immediate eligibility had been approved by the NCAA.

"Yep," Kunkel answered his dad in a video Xavier posted on social media.

Xavier was in the middle of practice Saturday when it found out Kunkel's waiver was approved and he'd be available for the Shootout.

A day earlier on Friday, freshmen guards Colby Jones and C.