Anyone marooned at work, under a rock, or otherwise unable to watch this game tonight will look at the 98-93 final in overtime and assume it was another Big East classic. It was, but how we got there was anything but the norm. Xavier somehow played great basketball, awful basketball, and vintage Xavier basketball all in the same game. With hearts out of mouths and pacemakers reset, here’s how it happened.
Great basketball:
Xavier tore off a 25-2 run in the first half and at one point led by 18. No, that is not a vestigial remnant of an article about a game that didn’t go into overtime.