Banners on the Parkway · Dec 10, 2015
Xavier's MVP From Every Shootout Win Since 2000
How do you breed a bear with a cat anyway? - Frank Victores-USA TODAY SportsIn the annals of mankind's sporting history, big performances rivalries are what separate the players who are revered forever by their fanbases from those who simply don the uniform for a time and then vanish into rarely accessed memory. Bucky Dent was an otherwise unremarkable journeyman middle infielder except for the fact that he got the biggest his of his life as a Yankee against the Red Sox. Geoff Hurst had a pretty pedestrian goal scoring rate for England, but he put away three in the World Cup against Germany and now he will never be forgotten (if you knew who he was in the first place). The great thing about sports is that, to become unforgettable, you don't have to be better than everyone all the time (although that would help), you just have to be better than the team your fans hate once. Here then are the ten men who have risen to the occasion in College Basketball's premier rivalry for Xavier since the turn of the century.