Xavier got what they came for in Chicago

"We're never going to apologize for a road win."

That's how Travis Steele opened the postgame press conference last night. If there was any doubt as to whether or not he grasped how entirely gruesome the game was to watch, that line erased it. Xavier led the game for 2 minutes and 8 seconds. In the end, it was enough.

There were troubling developments aplenty for Xavier. Defensive rebounding was bad, ball security took a major step back (chiefly through Paul Scruggs), and Zach Freemantle's inability to contribute on defense is becoming untenable. This isn't an analysis of any of those things.

What it is is the observation that the result is king. It's Travis Steele's job to fix what we watched…