The weather outside is genuinely frightful for Xavier’s second road trip of the Big East season. Rhode Island has somewhere around 15 inches of snow and highs will peak short of 10 degrees on Saturday. In the face of that unpleasantness, the Musketeers face a Providence team that was picked to finish fourth in the Big East by the coaches at the start of the year. Things haven’t gone well for the Friars, though, and they stand 1-2 in conference and eighth if you go by KenPom ranking, where they’ve plunged from 24th all the way down to 63rd.
Xavier @ Providence: Preview, Matchups, Keys to the Game
