Xavier didn’t win last night. It wasn’t, though, for lack of trying. The Musketeers fought to the bitter (as usual against Nova) end against a Villanova team that clearly had the upper hand for most of the game. X threw the ball to their big man, limited their three point attempts, and came so tantalizingly close to getting the win that would have given them the slightest of bubble chances.
The story here could be of a Villanova 8-0 run that effectively ended the game late in the second half, or about the fact that there’s something about Xavier (maybe try different uniforms?