Xavier is now 20-3 and alone atop the Big East. Trevon Bluiett is the third leading scorer in program history. Those are the highlights from a game that, frankly, couldn’t have impressed any neutral observers.
That was disgusting basketball: If you tuned in tonight hoping to watch Xavier at full cry, you were disappointed. More than that, this was just wretched to watch. Xavier didn’t get it going, St. John’s never gets it going, and the teams combined to look like overgrown junior high kids trying to play a game they watch on television sometimes. The teams shot a combined 16-51 from behind the arc, unwilling to let a lack of success put them off continuing to lift.