A week ago Xavier embarked on their best win of the season, brushing aside Miami and looking, for a moment, like a Big East power playing mildly meaningless early season games. Then came Saturday and the Musketeers struggling against an Oakland team that is going absolutely nowhere this reason. For every up this season has come a corresponding down as Xavier and Travis Steele slowly feel out a season in which the geography has completely changed around them.
For Ohio the geography has not changed. They are still in the MAC, they still aren’t very good, and they still have to chase an auto bid that isn’t coming to make the tournament.