Zip Em Up sidelines Cancer, 89-81

If I told you that JP Macura and Trevon Bluiett combined to go 3-17 behind the arc, would you believe a Xavier team won? Would you believe that Xavier shot 36 threes, made only 11, and beat a team with 16 year NBA veteran CJ Miles on it? What if... ok, enough of the hypotheticals. Zip Em Up rode the home crowd and Kerem Kanter to a big win over probably the best two seed in this field. It’s on to the regional final.

Kanter was the horse today. He went for 21/11/2 and couldn’t be stopped at times in the first half. In trying to stop him, Sideline Cancer ran Mike Daum into foul trouble. Sideline has some incredible individual talent, but they were not well coached. Xavier (ZEU, whatever)…