If you watch Xavier open the season with a less than comprehensive win over Robert Morris, you know they looked... well, they looked like a team with 10 new guys and nobody who had played together before. There was a reason for that.
No doubt that Coach Miller has his work cut out for him to mold this crew into the kind of team that can make a run in March, but the bottom line is that Xavier needed to go 1-0 and avoid an ugly loss and that's what they did. Whatever the next five(ish) months hold, this game isn't going to be a talking point when the resumes are read.