Xavier 67-84 Creighton: Takeaways from a road beat down

Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty ImagesWe all knew coming in to this week that 1-1 was probably best case scenario. I don’t think anyone was expecting the loss to be like this, though. Xavier was at the CHI Health Center in body, but not in spirit. Brian O’Connell was there in his usual spirit of ruining basketball, and the Musketeers are heading back to Cincinnati having taken a serious beating that surely colors the way the Big East shakes out this season.

Officiating changed the game

If you were as bad at your job as Brian O’Connell is at his would you be fired, jailed, or just shot on the spot? O’Connell is old, out of shape, and doesn’t know the rules of the game. He’s utterly useless and if…