Xavier played last Saturday. You may remember that game as a game that you wish you couldn’t remember. (If you drank to excess and forgot, congratulations.) Xavier also plays this Saturday and if the result is the same, the season is effectively over. The Musketeers have already burned through all of their wiggle room here in December. From this point on, they have to be bloodlessly efficient in the Big East and not have any slip ups against lesser teams. One bad loss would doom any chances of an at-large bid.
Enter the EKU Colonels. This is the definition of a buy game.