On February 1, 2005, Anberlin released the album Never Take Friendship Personal, which included the track “The Feel Good Drag”. The chorus of that song declared “this was over before, before it ever began,” which is only interesting in that Xavier scored the first 13 points of this basketball and functionally buried it as a contest before the first media timeout.
Mount St. Mary’s won the tip, and that’s pretty much where the good news ends for them. Xavier’s scoring on the season opened with a Jovan Milicivec three. Next time down had the same result for Xavier.