Banners On The Parkway - All PostsYour only remaining free source for Xavier Musketeers newshttps://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/47177/banners-fave.png2024-03-18T14:50:33-04:00http://www.bannersontheparkway.com/rss/current/2024-03-18T14:50:33-04:002024-03-18T14:50:33-04:00What was the committee thinking?
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<p>The men’s basketball tournament is the NCAA’s biggest showpiece, and they messed it all up.</p> <p id="i13f7n">The tournament is finally here. Xavier isn’t in it, nor should they be, but the glorious bracket has been unveiled, the seeding has been analyzed, and the talking heads have talked. It was a great Selection Sunday, because all Selection Sunday’s are great.</p>
<p id="bKlyOS">Have you ever had a Christmas that didn’t go according to plan, though? Maybe your gifts didn’t land right. Maybe you didn’t get what you wanted, or the roast burned, or the morning coffee was lukewarm, or the cinnamon rolls didn’t have a can of frosting each, or whatever it may have been. It was Christmas, and Christmas isn’t ever full on bad, but it was disappointing. That was this Selection Sunday.</p>
<p id="SSvUJf">This tournament is the showpiece of the NCAA. Even the BCS doesn’t bring in the eyes that the men’s basketball tournament does. There is no other event like this in the United States.</p>
<p id="YcQ2mK">And the NCAA made a mess of it.</p>
<h3 id="Pga6dn">What the committee got right</h3>
<p id="RKZciI">There are 68 teams in the tournament. Great job, guys!</p>
<p id="07sOu0">Holy crap, and in four regions! Well done!</p>
<p id="xF5uq3">Leaving out Indiana State. Seriously, play someone.</p>
<h3 id="kNuoTp">What the committee got wrong</h3>
<p id="IRzdBs"><strong>The Big East got screwed</strong></p>
<p id="7NhxFT">Let’s start close to home and at the top of the bracket. <a href="https://www.theuconnblog.com">UConn</a> is the top team in the bracket. That makes sense, they have the top resume after Purdue got knocked off. Good on Dan Hurley and the boys. The problem is that they were rewarded with the toughest bracket. The East has the best two seed (more on them later), the best metric ranking of teams two through four no matter which metric you use, the conference winner from a six bid league, and the 16th team in KenPom lurking on the six line. The committee, in all their wisdom, gave the consensus toughest region to the team they “rewarded” with the top seed.</p>
<p id="AP7frx">UConn, though, should have led a long list of Big East teams in the tournament. Prior to the Selection Show, most brackets had St. John’s and Seton Hall in, with Providence hanging on the bubble. Instead, the second best conference in the nation got three teams in the tournament. We’ll get into who should have been left out, but St. John’s should have been in. Seton Hall probably should have been in, and Providence definitely has a case. Kim English was outspoken in saying “the metrics are bulls***” and suggesting that running up the score on bad teams was the way to go. It seems that way, but the committee also left out Oklahoma, who did just that. </p>
<p id="L4lzOo"><strong>FAU and Virginia shouldn’t be in this tournament</strong></p>
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<p id="7yK5zK">Click if you need to make that bigger, but you are looking at the first four out, the Big East snubs, and the two teams mentioned. Joel said, “If it’s about metrics, Johnnies have them. If it’s about good wins, Seton Hall and Providence have them. If it’s about avoiding bad losses, all the BE teams have them.” Is it Q1 wins? FAU has two. Is it avoiding bad losses? FAU has the two worst and three losses outside the top quads. Does the NET matter? Indiana State is the highest team ever left out. Do the metrics matter? St. John’s is top 25. Prefer BPI or SOR? Then get St. John’s, Providence, or Oklahoma in there. The committee was wildly inconsistent this year, and it cost teams that should be in and somehow gave us a team that lost to Bryant, FGCU, Charlotte, UAB, and Temple. Stupid.</p>
<p id="KQfedD">Per Bryan, “Florida Atlantic earned their bid last April. They have one good win and one decent win. Nothing else they have done suggests they should have made the tournament. That brings us to Virginia who had 2 Q1 wins. If avoiding bad losses is the goal then Providence also did that and won three times as many games in Q1. I don’t see what you can look at and rank either of these teams ahead of St. John’s, Providence, Seton Hall, or Oklahoma.”</p>
<p id="0hOnz8"><strong>The seeding is all messed up</strong></p>
<p id="JNBx89">FAU shouldn’t be in and is an eight. <a href="https://www.theonlycolors.com">Michigan State</a> was a bubble team and landed on the nine line. An entire article could be written on the absolute slap in the face the <a href="https://www.mwcconnection.com">Mountain West</a> got. Utah State as an eight is hilarious, as is the idea that Boise State belongs in Dayton or that New Mexico wouldn’t have been in at all if they hadn’t won the MWC tournament. </p>
<p id="htzL2s"><a href="https://www.widerightnattylite.com">Iowa State</a> is fourth on Torvik and fifth on KenPom. They somehow got the last two seed while UNC, ninth in both and below ISU in NET and SOR, got a one seed. As a further insult, the committee put the Cyclones with UConn. Auburn is fourth in KenPom, fifth in Torvik, fourth in BPI, fifth in NET, and 10th in SOR. What does that resume get you? <em>A four seed! </em>Again, that is in UConn’s bracket.</p>
<p id="dZTxrG">McNeese and Colorado are too low. Gonzaga is too high. Dayton is too high. Northwestern should be playing in. <a href="https://www.vanquishthefoe.com">BYU</a> shouldn’t get special treatment. It’s a huge mess and is probably the worst seeded tournament in a decade.</p>
<h3 id="xEBqIS">How to fix this</h3>
<p id="tO88xy">Put basketball people on the committee. Right now the committee is athletic directors and commissioners. They are all ostensibly fine people with a broad base of knowledge and also someone from Butler. None of them are basketball people. This field requires someone who knows and cares about this game, not just sports in general. We all have friends who like soccer, and the NFL, and the NBA, and college football. There’s nothing wrong with that at all. That’s great. Those people can grate a little, though, come March when they talk about Duke and Gonzaga and John Calipari and don’t really know anything about Nevada.</p>
<p id="y0xqzj">That’s who picked your tournament field this year. Get those people (mostly) out and bring in people who know and follow the game like a religion. Ken Pomeroy should be at that table with former coaches, guys who understand metrics, and a couple of the current committee to add balance and make sure the things sorts correctly on the bracketing standards.</p>
<p id="Z24Bd0">Because when you let the committee pick on its own, you get this mess.</p>
https://www.bannersontheparkway.com/2024/3/18/24105016/what-was-the-committee-thinking-ncaa-tournament-bracketBrad D2024-03-17T22:07:07-04:002024-03-17T22:07:07-04:00Xavier will face Georgia in the first round of the NIT
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<p>Xavier’s season will continue with a trip to an SEC foe.</p> <p id="A5ogeI">For the second time in three years, Xavier’s season will conclude with a trip to the NIT. After winning the tournament in 2022, Xavier will begin their quest to capture another title with a trip to Athens, Georgia to face the Georgia Bulldogs. Georgia will host the game by virtue of being the second automatic qualifier from the SEC after Ole Miss turned down a bid to the NIT. The Bulldogs, who are 17-16 on the season and finished 6-12 in conference play, may be without their second leading scorer Jabari Abdur-Rahim who missed the last four games with an ankle injury.</p>
<p id="DfSRFN">The game will take place on Tuesday night at 7 PM and will air on ESPN 2. The winner will take on the winner of Wake Forest, the top seed in the region, and Appalachian State. We’ll be bringing you a full fledged preview as we approach tip time, but the news is simple for now: Xavier is going to keep playing basketball until there isn’t any more basketball for them to play.</p>
https://www.bannersontheparkway.com/2024/3/17/24104464/xavier-will-face-georgia-in-the-first-round-of-the-nitBryan D2024-03-14T14:28:44-04:002024-03-14T14:28:44-04:00Xavier wasn’t as good as UConn today
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<p>This wasn’t entirely unforeseeable, but it still wasn’t fun to watch.</p> <p id="0fO64f">The last gift this undermanned, battered iteration of the Musketeers gave to the fan base was hope. They came out of the gate like demons, pressuring <a href="https://www.theuconnblog.com">UConn</a> all over the floor, making shots, and sustaining an incomprehensible level of energy. Des got a bucket and an assist. Quincy hit a three, then another. Three minutes into the game, Xavier led 10-0.</p>
<p id="YXqKpJ">UConn punched back, because of course they did. They’re the best team in the nation. Having taken Xavier’s best shot directly to the mouth, they responded immediately. Just 3:42 after Xavier led 10-0, they were down 13-10.</p>
<p id="GKZStR">There are a lot of things in this team - like walk-ons and freshmen getting minutes that were supposed to go to guys who are now in the starting lineup - but quit isn’t one of them. Offered the opportunity to quit, they hit back again. Des ripped off 5 straight on two layups and a free throw. Trey hit a three off an assist from Quincy, then Quincy hit a jumper of his own. That was 20 points in 10 minutes for Xavier, coupled with an insane defensive effort, and it led to a 20-14 lead. </p>
<p id="5W9O5Z">UConn scored 5 in their next two trips, but the Muskies clung to their lead. Xavier held UConn to just a single bucket for the next 4:43, but they could only muster one of their own in response. The cracks were showing. The level of intensity necessary to keep things tight on the defensive end was sapping Xavier’s legs on offense. UConn cobbled together 11 points after the final media timeout after scoring just 23 in the first 16+ minutes of the game. Only a gritty six points from Dayvion McKnight in Xavier’s final three possessions kept the deficit to just one at the half.</p>
<p id="6qtCwk">In a game that ended less than 18 hours before, McKnight, Claude, and Olivari fought their guts out against Butler. They played 39, 39, and 37 minutes, respectively, in that contest. Now they had played 19, 17, and 20 in the first half against the most relentless team in the country. It was a brutal, taxing effort. The Muskies had combined to hold UConn to 13-32/4-14/4-10 shooting. They would have to do that and more and improve their output on offense to keep the dream alive.</p>
<p id="pqxtIL">It wasn’t to be. UConn got 22 bench minutes and 10 bench points in the first half. Xavier got 12 and 6. As Xavier’s legs got heavier in the second half, shots they desperately needed came in too flat or too short. After shooting 12-29/3-9/6-7 in the first half, they could only muster 9-32/2-12/7-8 in the second. The spirit was willing. The flesh, beaten down over the course of a season with an ever-dwindling number of scholarship athletes available, had nothing left to offer. UConn walked away with the game.</p>
<p id="SUwYEK">I’d be remiss to leave that as the epitaph. Bradley Colbert got some much deserved <a href="https://www.sbnation.com/big-east-basketball-tournament">Big East Tournament</a> run, and he made the most of it. He came off a pin-down and racked a three off of a dime from Ian Sabourin. He forced a turnover and got a layup on the run out. Maybe feeling selfish for hogging all the buckets, he fed Lazar Djokovic for a bucket on the post. None of these moments changed the win probability at all, but they were things that happened, and I hope they turn into cherished memories that linger long after the pain of the season coming to a close subsides.</p>
<p id="TZDEyf">Spare a thought for Quincy Olivari. Alone among this team’s rotation, he has completed his eligibility. He joined Xavier anticipating making a run in the NCAA Tournament. By the time the season had even started, that dream was on life support. The productivity he offered on the floor was only matched by the joy with which he played the game; he deservedly takes his place in a crowded pantheon of Xavier transfers who made a mark on the program.</p>
<p id="ntGB3I">There’s the faintest chance that this wasn’t the end. The NIT selection rules have changed to offer bids to the top two teams in the NET who didn’t make the tournament from each major conference. Xavier will end the season somewhere in the mid-60s, closely grouped with Providence, Butler, and Seton Hall. The results from today will go a long way towards determining what comes next for this group.</p>
<p id="LGCwe5">For now, just remember that they fought valiantly against the odds all season, and for just a moment it seemed like the impossible was in play.</p>
https://www.bannersontheparkway.com/2024/3/14/24100997/xavier-wasnt-as-good-as-uconn-today-big-east-tournament-so-it-goesJoel D2024-03-14T08:00:00-04:002024-03-14T08:00:00-04:00Big East Tournament Preview: Taking on Goliath
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<p>There are hurdles on the way to the tournament and then there is this game, a veritable high jump.</p> <p id="41mPEA">Well, to be (in the tournament with) the best you have to beat the best. In order to win the <a href="https://www.sbnation.com/big-east-basketball-tournament">Big East tournament</a> and earn a shot at the auto-bid, Xavier was going to have to beat <a href="https://www.theuconnblog.com">UConn</a> at some point. That point is now about four hours away. I’m not going to type you a bunch of hyped up <em>we can do this</em> nonsense. This game will be as difficult as anyone plays all season. The teams that meet in the NCAA final will not face a challenge more difficult than UConn.</p>
<h3 id="leYKan">Previous meetings</h3>
<p id="Yyidqa">It gets lost in the mess of the season, but Xavier very nearly beat UConn in January. The Musketeers led in the second half, fell behind, and rallied furiously to cut the lead to five. Xavier shot<em> </em><strong>terribly</strong> in that game. Like, 37% inside the arc horribly. Somehow, despite that and 33% behind the arc, Xavier was never dead and buried in that first meeting. UConn was missing Donovan Clingan. The players Xavier will be missing this time, Dailyn Swain and Sasa Ciani, combined for 4/3/0 in 18 minutes. Call it reason for hope.</p>
<p id="rpheIA">There was also another game between these teams. Call it reason for less hope.</p>
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<p id="SD9YLE">Connecticut is, depending on how you like your rankings, the best team in the nation. The last time they lost it was to a Creighton team that scored an unrepeatable 1.44 points per possession. The time before that was before Christmas. Their only non-conference loss came to Kansas at Kansas. Not the damaged, limping, Kansas of now, but a full strength Kansas team that only managed to beat the Huskies by four at home.</p>
<p id="q0qDTJ">UConn has beaten Seton Hall by 30, <a href="https://www.vuhoops.com">Villanova</a> by 24, Marquette by 28, Creighton by 14, Indiana by 20, North Carolina by nine, and Gonzaga by 13. The last two were on neutral courts. Whatever a team can do well, this team does. They’re third in the nation in offensive efficiency, 12th in defensive efficiency, and they play at a glacial pace that forces each possession to matter.</p>
<h3 id="1dCj0W">How can Xavier beat UConn?</h3>
<p id="asnytj">There is no point in sugar coating this: it’s going to take a minor basketball miracle. X can play with Creighton or Marquette by just playing basketball. Xavier won’t get this one by just playing the way they play and hoping for the best. Here’s what they have to do.</p>
<p id="ZVgM6e"><strong>- Push the pace: </strong>UConn plays slowly because they can. They dominate the ball and make you use precious possessions to score or stop them. Each possession eats time that plays into the hands of the better team. Xavier has played 20 games with over 70 possessions this season, UConn has played four. Mind you, they won all four of those, but getting them out of their comfort zone is at least a start toward something. See if they can play blazing fast basketball as well as they play walk it up.</p>
<p id="umVmnb"><strong>- Get hot: </strong>1.15, 1.21, 1.44. Those are the points per possession that UConn allowed in its losses. Seton Hall shot 54% inside the arc, Creighton shot a frankly stupid 60% inside the arc and 50% from deep, Kansas rode blocks and 64% behind the arc. There’s no great art to this. Xavier simply has to shoot incredibly well. Xavier is 6-3 when they shoot over 39% behind the arc. Two of those losses are to Creighton and Marquette. The other is Delaware. Xavier has shot over 60% inside the arc six times this year and won them all. They also managed 54.8% against Purdue and very nearly stole that one. </p>
<p id="rIQICA"><strong>- Get to the line: </strong>Xavier can score from the line. 74.1% isn’t terrible and it is far less than terrible if it carries weight. UConn fouls a lot. The best chance Xavier has may be in getting Claude, McKnight, and Olivari to the line over and over again. Get downhill, get to the line, Rinse and repeat. Again, it isn’t art, but Xavier no other options where they even have a hint of an advantage. </p>
<p id="e8mPAo"><strong>- Find some magic: </strong>Xavier has guys with magic in them. The dogged relentlessness of Des Claude paid off in an incredible performance against Georgetown where he simply would not be denied getting to the rim. He could be the guy to do something like 15-16 from the line. Maybe he finds whatever he had early in the season and goes 3-6 from deep. </p>
<p id="ajYKkN">Quincy Olivari is the obvious choice here. It’s something of a dirty secret that he’s shooting 31.6% behind the arc away from the Cintas this season. Except for a blazing hot four minutes against Butler, he was stone cold in his first tournament game at Madison Square Garden. But who really wants to be that Quincy couldn’t get hot one more time and do what he did on the road against DePaul? If there is magic in any Musketeer, it’s Quincy Olivari. </p>
<p id="VIEN7B">Dayvion McKnight will just keep quietly being excellent.</p>
<h3 id="za8vk2">Is this possible?</h3>
<p id="sXVn6z">Yes. Montana bludgeoned Montana St twice this season and then met them again in the Big Sky final. Why does that matter? Because Montana St was down 11 in the second half and found one of those March moments and ripped off a 33-6 run and knocked off the Grizzlies. They didn’t have to better on the season, or better in the head to head, or better in the first half. What they needed was a run that no one saw coming against a team that both had their number and had them buried.</p>
<p id="aUMlci">It won’t be easy for Xavier. UConn is a lock for a one seed. They brutalize most of the teams they play, even the very good ones. But good stories aren’t made by beating mediocre teams, heroes aren’t shaped because they knock off the little guys. We remember Tre and JP and a gleeful Malcolm Bernard because they beat Arizona, we remember BJ Raymond because he hit a huge shot to knock off a much higher seed. The classic call says, “number one in the country, number two in their own city.” Legends are formed in the big games, why not form another one now?</p>
https://www.bannersontheparkway.com/2024/3/14/24100287/big-east-tournament-preview-taking-on-goliath-uconn-xavier-basketballBrad D2024-03-13T20:40:42-04:002024-03-13T20:40:42-04:00Xavier obliterates Butler by four to advance in the Big East Tournament
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<p>It’s all binary from here on out, and on a scale of win to lose, X landed on the correct side.</p> <p id="3WsI72">This is a game that played out over 40 minutes as a narrative, with fits and starts from both teams as the balance swung this way and that before finding an ultimate result. We’re going to skip all that for the moment and focus on two stats that tell the story for Xavier: 8 frontcourt points, and 3 bench points. That’s it. </p>
<p id="3IRPmm">If you’re going to get that little production from 40% of your starting lineup and 100% of your reserves, someone in the starting backcourt is going to have to answer the bell in a big way. Xavier’s big three of Des Claude, Quincy Olivari, and Dayvion McKnight took it in turns today.</p>
<p id="34AQhG">His start was sluggish adjacent, with just 4 points in the first 8 minutes (which also, maddeningly, included a missed three), but he flipped a switch after the second media timeout. With Xavier coming out of the break down 15-14, it was like he suddenly remembered that there’s nobody on Butler that can keep him from getting to his spots or scoring from them. In Xavier’s next four possessions, Des went bucket, bucket, assist (on a monstrous lob to Abou Ousmane), bucket. An 8-0 run wholly of his device has the Muskies in command.</p>
<p id="wpU0L2">Briefly. Des took a break, and Butler stormed back with 11 unanswered points of their own. A couple of buckets by Quincy stopped the bleeding, but the Muskies went into the under 4 all tied up with Butler at 26. He came out of the timeout with another little jumper out of high ball screen action against an overmatched Finley Bizjack, made a couple of free throws, and scored the last bucket of the half with a floater over Landon Moore. Thanks to 16 points on 7-11 shooting from the league’s most improved player, Xavier led by 1 at the interval.</p>
<p id="n9Ur1A">Out of halftime, Quincy Olivari took his turn. The brevity of his time in the driver’s seat just underscored how important it was. He assisted Dayvion McKnight on Xavier’s first three of the game. With Butler keeping pace, he drilled one of his own to put Xavier up 4 with 14:46 left, then - after a Des Claude layup - went 2-3 from deep on the Muskies’ next three trips down. X only got 6 stops in that half’s first 9 minutes, but the sudden outburst of offense led by Olivari was enough to hold the Bulldogs at bay. Quincy didn’t have an efficient game by his high standards, but he stepped up when the team needed a spark.</p>
<p id="uRUr7A">That leaves only Dayvion McKnight. By this point in the season, every team in the league knows McKnight’s instructions are to grab the ball - make or miss - and get out in transition as fast as possible. Somehow, he’s still an unstoppable blur from one end to the other.</p>
<p id="nbjkKI">A Lazar Djokovic defensive board turned into a layup for Dayvion in the blink of an eye. A steal by Dayvion led to a bucket for Quincy. The teams traded blows. With just over 5 minutes on the clock, Xavier’s advantage dwindled to 1. He somehow relieved inbounder Posh Alexander of the ball on a baseline out play, passed the eight other dudes on the floor that were between him and the bucket, and laid it in. Literally nobody not standing out of bounds was further from the basket than he was; a second later, he had Verstappened past them all and scored.</p>
<p id="wEGd8l">Still Butler kept coming. Des and Posh Alexander traded buckets, leaving Xavier clinging to a 69-68 lead with just over 2 minutes remaining. At this point in the game, nobody had played more minutes than Dayvion. He came off for his only break of the game with 15:48 left in the second half. At the 15:03 mark, he checked back in. If he was exhausted, it would hardly be a black mark on his sterling record.</p>
<p id="PC4n1F">Instead, he took over. First he put Andre Screen in a blender out of a high ball screen before gliding in for an uncontested layup. Next he drew a foul on Posh Alexander and calmly canned a couple of free throws. Then, for the <em>coup de grace</em>, he once again turned the corner at the top of the key and got downhill. Forced to pick the ball up a little higher than he would have liked, he leapt into the chest of Jahmyl Telfort, who is listed at 6’7”, 225 to McKnight’s 6’0”, 188. </p>
<p id="hCjM1g">In the Big East Tournament, size alone doesn’t determine the bigger man. McKnight collected the contact, hung in the air for a period of time that defied my understanding of the laws that govern physical objects, and scored. Up 7 with a minute to play, Xavier had put the game on ice. Now it’s time for ibuprofen and Pedialyte, because the Muskies roll again at noon against the tournament’s top seed, UConn.</p>
https://www.bannersontheparkway.com/2024/3/13/24100197/xavier-obliterates-butler-by-four-to-advance-in-the-big-east-tournament-march-madnessJoel D2024-03-13T08:00:00-04:002024-03-13T08:00:00-04:00Xavier v. Butler: Big East Tournament preview, matchups, keys to the game
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<p>There’s no way out but through for the 2023-24 Muskies.</p> <p id="bFjDCw"><em>“Half a league, half a league, half a league, onward,”</em> wrote Alfred, Lord Tennyson, regarding the ill-fated Charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean in 1854. The victims of a misunderstood or miscommunicated order, the nearly 700 British cavalrymen were cut down by Russian artillery as they executed an attack that they could never hope to have completed.</p>
<p id="WYxghT">Some 170 years later, the Muskies find themselves possibly facing down the basketball equivalent. Whittled to the marrow by injuries, this roster has battled valiantly to the stretch run of a season that has at times seemed like some sort of karmic bullying against kids who don’t deserve it. With six games against teams in the KenPom top 10 already in the rearview, the Muskies figure to have to take down two of the top 10 in the span of four days to secure a place in the NCAA tournament.</p>
<p id="edNF2O">It’s a grim task ahead. The first hurdle is a Butler team against whom Xavier has split this season. They beat them by a dozen with what passed for a full roster this year, then lost by six just a week ago with Dailyn Swain and Sasa Ciani joining the handful of players who had already suffered season-ending injuries this year.</p>
<p id="tz13DZ">There’s no more bubble or resume or mitigation for this star-crossed iteration of the Xavier basketball program. It’s only win or go home from here until whenever the end comes.</p>
<h3 id="4jGywT">Team fingerprint</h3>
<p id="77KOIT">You’ll not be surprised to learn that little has changed in the seven days since these teams last played, especially considering Butler had the weekend off. Their offense still doesn’t turn the ball over much and is good but not great from deep. They don’t board or get to the line and they lack strong interior scoring options. They make about 80% of their free throws as a team, which is obviously a tough hurdle to clear for a team that’s trailing late.</p>
<p id="vVcKO7">Their defense also isn’t lighting the world on fire. They keep opponents off the line and seal the glass pretty well. They don’t force bad shots much and can be had from behind the arc, and their turnover percentage is basically down to Posh Alexander. It’s not a great defensive unit, but they can hold their own against one-dimensional teams.</p>
<h3 id="gAOG8D">Players</h3>
<h4 id="6QVXJx">Starters</h4>
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<td align="center">Posh Alexander</td>
<td align="center">Point Guard</td>
<td align="center">Dayvion McKnight</td>
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<td align="center">Class</td>
<td align="center">Senior</td>
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<td align="center">6'0", 205</td>
<td align="center">Measurements</td>
<td align="center">6'0", 188</td>
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<td align="center">11.1/4.6/4.9</td>
<td align="center">Game line</td>
<td align="center">12.4/3.8/5</td>
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<td align="center">42.8/32.9/77.8</td>
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<td align="center">46.4/38.5/81.1</td>
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<td align="center">This will be Alexander's 9th game against Xavier; if you don't know what to expect, I'm not sure I can help you. He's an absolue ball hawk on defense, and if you lose sight of him, he'll steal the ball, regardless of if you're the 1 or the 5. He isn't a great shooter, but he can get streaky hot and does well from the line. He rides the momentum of a favorable crowd, which he might find at MSG as a former St. John's player. Blink and he'll decimate your whole game plan.</td>
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<td align="center">Shooting Guard</td>
<td align="center">Quincy Olivari</td>
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<td align="center">Class</td>
<td align="center">Senior</td>
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<td align="center">6'1", 175</td>
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<td align="center">6'3", 200</td>
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<td align="center">13.6/3.2/2.5</td>
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<td align="center">19.5/5.5/2</td>
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<td align="center">43.1/35/96.8</td>
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<td align="center">43.4/43.2/81.1</td>
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<td align="center">Davis is an absolute sniper from the line; he barely misses a free throw under any circumstances and leads the nation's qualifiers in FT%. Besides that, he's a threat from deep to the extent that he needs to be checked, but he's not an assassin from out there. He's an okay finisher with a good mid-range game. He's an excellent secondary option on offense, which is how Butler uses him.</td>
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<td align="center">Pierre Brooks</td>
<td align="center">Small Forward</td>
<td align="center">Desmond Claude</td>
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<td align="center">Class</td>
<td align="center">Sophomore</td>
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<td align="center">6'6", 240</td>
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<td align="center">6'6", 203</td>
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<td align="center">14.8/4/1.1</td>
<td align="center">Game line</td>
<td align="center">16/4.1/3.2</td>
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<td align="center">45.8/41.1/67.7</td>
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<td align="center">41.5/20.6/79.2</td>
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<td align="center">Brooks is thicker than refrigerated peanut butter, but he doesn't use it to bang much; Posh takes a high percentage of his shots at the rim. Brooks has a pure jumper though, and he's solid from mid-range as well as being excellent from deep. He'll hurt you on the occasions he goes to the paint, too. He's not a super defender or much of a rebounder, but he can fill it up on the offensive end.</td>
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<td align="center">Power Forward</td>
<td align="center">Kachi Nzeh</td>
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<td align="center">Senior</td>
<td align="center">Class</td>
<td align="center">Freshman</td>
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<td align="center">6'7", 225</td>
<td align="center">Measurements</td>
<td align="center">6'8", 230</td>
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<td align="center">13.6/4.9/3.1</td>
<td align="center">Game line</td>
<td align="center">2.4/2.4/0.4</td>
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<td align="center">42.8/31.7/85.2</td>
<td align="center">Shooting line</td>
<td align="center">60/0/50</td>
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<td align="center">He's not specifically efficient - it has taken him 32 shots to score 28 points against Xavier this year - but he's not afraid to go for volume and he makes his free throws. He's a pretty solid defender without fouling, especially if he doesn't have to stray too far from the paint. He's not much on the glass, which isn't optimal considering Butler starts him at the four.</td>
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<td align="center">Jalen Thomas</td>
<td align="center">Center</td>
<td align="center">Abou Ousmane</td>
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<td align="center">Class</td>
<td align="center">Senior</td>
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<td align="center">6'10", 240</td>
<td align="center">Measurements</td>
<td align="center">6'10", 240</td>
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<td align="center">7.5/6.1/0.7</td>
<td align="center">Game line</td>
<td align="center">6.8/6.5/1.2</td>
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<td align="center">54.7/26.1/78</td>
<td align="center">Shooting line</td>
<td align="center">46/25/45</td>
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<td align="center">Is Thomas Butler's best rebounder? Yes. Is he their only rebounder? No, not technically. He's the only one they start though. He's a very efficient offensive player because he shoots almost exclusively from the paint, grabs offensive boards, and doesn't turn the ball over. He steps out and shoots it from deep, but he doesn't really make it from there. He can also be pretty foul prone.</td>
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<h4 id="qeIw0L">Reserves</h4>
<p id="t2DAGb">Not much. Andre Screen is a giant big man off the bench who rocks the Chris Sabo rec specs. He’ll block a lot of shots, commit a lot of fouls, and shoot 50% from the field against decent teams despite being 7’1”.</p>
<p id="pKPq5j">Reserve guards are Landon Moore and Finley Bizjack. Bizjack looks like the kind of weird dude who makes a ton of threes, but he actually shoots 39.6/29/80.6 on his way to 4.3/1.1/0.9 per game. Moore averages 4/1.3/1.3 per game and shoots 38.8/38/75.8 on the year, though he’s hitting 44% from deep in Big East games. Neither of these guys will be on top of a scouting report, but each can hurt you in his own way if left alone.</p>
<h3 id="lV7jO0">Three questions</h3>
<p id="N79rWp"><strong>-Does Xavier have any legs left?</strong> The Muskies were up 6 with 13 to play and held a lead with 4 to play against Marquette over the weekend, but they couldn’t get it across the line. That continues a trend of falling out of games late, which makes sense considering they’ve consigned half a roster’s worth of scholarship players to the season-ending injury list this year. It’s gonna take something special to win four games in four days, but that’s a moot point if they can’t get this one across the line.</p>
<p id="OvneIn"><strong>-Has Lazar Djokovic arrived?</strong> After a rough start to the year and an equal rough middle part, Lazar has thrown up 16/8/2 in his last two games. Every game is, in a sense, an audition for his roster spot next year, and there’s no better place to make a name for yourself than MSG. Madison Square Garden, I mean, not monosodium glutamate, which is a seasoning. The Muskies need someone taller than Des Claude who can offer an offensive threat, and it would be a welcome development if Djokovic became that guy.</p>
<p id="RLiVk1"><strong>-Can Quincy Olivari hit away from home?</strong> The best player to ever don the #8 for Xavier has been a scalding 70-142 (49.3%) from beyond the arc at home, but he’s just 28-85 (32.9%) in road and neutral games combined. He has been accused of being a flat-track bully by some of the haters in our mentions, but the reality is that he’s untouchable at Cintas against any opponent. This tournament is being contested at not-Cintas though, which means Xavier’s talismanic sniper is going to need to find the range in a hurry to make this season last.</p>
<h3 id="8UsP6a">Three keys</h3>
<p id="aGpMRo"><strong>-Play from the start.</strong> Xavier outscored Butler by 10 over the final 35 minutes of the game the last time these two teams played, including holding them scoreless for 10 minutes through the middle of the game for recorded history’s slowest 12-0 run. The problem was the first 5 minutes of the game, in which Butler went 20-4 over X and basically salted the thing away before it was clear the Muskies had arrived in the building. There’s not much more embarrassing than a complete no-show at the Mecca; Xavier needs to come out of the gates hot today, as much for the fans as for themselves. </p>
<p id="sy3lHt"><strong>-Protect the ball, Des. </strong>I was going to be more general in this point, but I’m going to personalize it. A week ago, X had 15 turnovers; Des Claude had 6 of them and Abou Ousmane kicked in another 4. You don’t rely on Abou to control the flow of the game, but you need it from Des. His turnovers are rarely the result of superlative defense; the dude just has a knack for coughing the ball up in weird ways or not at all. When he isn’t doing that, he can’t be kept out of the paint. If Xavier can throw him the ball and trust him to at least get it on the rim, I think this goes their way.</p>
<p id="ntcTP2"><strong>-Get just enough from the post. </strong>Xavier’s starting big men have scored 11 points on 5-15 shooting in the last week, which is an abysmal performance. The team leans heavily on the top three of Des Claude, Dayvion McKnight, and Quincy Olivari, but you hope to get less that 100% of your scoring from those three guys. Neither Abou nor Kachi nor basically anyone Xavier has started at the four or five is a reliable go-to scorer, but if they can kick in a few buckets just to take the load off the guards, it’s a welcome addition to the offensive output of the team.</p>
https://www.bannersontheparkway.com/2024/3/13/24099254/xavier-v-butler-big-east-tournament-preview-matchups-keys-to-the-gameJoel D2024-03-12T13:11:58-04:002024-03-12T13:11:58-04:00Championship Week News and Notes
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<p>It the time of year where things speed up</p> <p id="pKMBkk">Championship Week is weird when you are a high major in a low major’s situation. Xavier is only going to the tournament if they win the <a href="https://www.sbnation.com/big-east-basketball-tournament">Big East tournament</a>. The <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/nit-tournament">NIT</a> may or may not wait. Until X tips off tomorrow at 4pm, there’s little to do but peruse the college basketball news and see what everyone else is up to.</p>
<h3 id="WbJlX8">Bids are going out</h3>
<p id="YwzX86">Six teams, Stetson, Drake, Longwood, James Madison, Morehead St, and Samford are already in. Stetson is in for the first time and is going to either play a play-in game or get nuked by a one seed. AQs playing a play-in game is a flaw in the tournament, but I digress. Five more from the Horizon, CAA, NEC, WCC, and Summit go out tonight. The big conferences are also kicking off their tournaments over the next two days. It’s the time of year where you can throw the tv on at noon and have basketball until midnight.</p>
<h3 id="J5grou">Porter Moser is acting strange</h3>
<p id="jxB1o8">First, reports came out that Moser had been in contact with other teams about leaving his job at Oklahoma. Then, the reports clarified that first among those teams was DePaul. After that Moser issued a randomly capitalized denial on Twitter that he attached a gif of an OU flag that appeared to have been made in MS Paint to. It all smacked a lot of Thad Matta’s vociferous denials that he was going to leave Xavier right before he left Xavier.</p>
<p id="KPT6lP">But why would anyone leave Oklahoma for DePaul? DePaul is a bad program that hasn’t been relevant in decades. Oklahoma is swimming in NIL and football money. It makes no sense, but Moser’s denials ring of “the lady doth protest too much, methinks.”</p>
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<h3 id="jM2WCa">Xavier is slumping</h3>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">NCAA Tournament Appearances in last 6 seasons despite NKU loss last night.<br><br>NKU: 4 (counting 2020 since they had qualified)<br>Xavier and UC combined: 2 (barring a miracle run from either this week)<br><br>Xavier and UC had combined for a combined 11 over the previous 6 seasons.</p>— Retire FiftyTu (@RetireFiftyTu) <a href="https://twitter.com/RetireFiftyTu/status/1767546873030566216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 12, 2024</a>
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<p id="zleUQQ">X made the Sweet 16 last season, but this is shaping up to be the fifth of six in which they don’t make the tournament. Covid ruined a good team and maybe took a bid from a bubble team. Injuries hit hard this year. Still, those are ultimately just excuses for a program that should be doing better than this.</p>
https://www.bannersontheparkway.com/2024/3/12/24098653/championship-week-news-and-notes-basketball-ncaa-tournamentBrad D2024-03-11T14:05:13-04:002024-03-11T14:05:13-04:00Quincy Olivari doesn’t get the respect he deserves
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<p>The Big East slapped Xavier’s best player in the face with an indefensible decision.</p> <p id="LUQIW6">Quick, if a player leads a conference in scoring and three pointers made, finishes second in three point percentage, fifth in free throw percentage, 20th in rebounding as a 6-3 guard, 11th in steals, and is not lower than 19th in any offensive metric, which spot on the all-conference team should he play? Clearly that guy can go anywhere from the one to the three, right?</p>
<p id="clUe2w">Nope. The Big East named Quincy Olivari to honorable mention all-conference. That’s obviously a stupid decision that just beggars belief. It’s not as if Q is some volume scorer or a guy who only scores. His defensive rebounding rate was higher than Abou Ousmane’s. Not impressed by that because Abou wasn’t very good? Fine. Quincy defensive rebounded better than Ryan Kalkbrenner or anyone on <a href="https://www.theuconnblog.com">UConn</a> not named Clingan or Newton. 6-11 Oso Ighodaro? Not as good a defensive rebounder as Q.</p>
<p id="uKEcsP">Olivari finished the regular season with a slash line of 19.5/5.5/2.0 on .434/.432/.811 shooting. There are six spots on the all Big East first team and five on the second team. The Big East picked one big (Kalkbrenner) in those spots, leaving 10 that could have gone to Olivari. Is Cam Spencer as good a player as Q? No. His final line was 14.7/4.6/3.4 on .492/.451/.902 with usage rate over 6% lower. Trey Alexander needed significantly more shots to score significantly fewer points. The idea that Daniss Jenkins is better than Q is just absolutely laughable. He managed three more assists per game, because he’s a point guard, but shot nearly as much as Q to score <em>five</em> fewer points per game.</p>
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<p id="6uEnTA">Eric Dixon? Not even close. He snagged half a rebound more per game, but was outscored, outassisted, and outstolen by Olivari. He also wasn’t as efficient on offense. Neither was the aforementioned Jenkins. Or Trey Alexander (who wasn’t even top 500). Tyler Kolek, golden boy of the media? Not as efficient as Quincy Olivari on offense, even with his glittering assist numbers. Quincy was top 15 in efficiency despite being top 15 in usage and top 10 in shots percentage. He scored well and often.</p>
<p id="EZkAg5">The conference high scoring game? Quincy Olivari. The conference high scoring half. Quincy Olivari followed by Quincy Olivari. <em><strong>The top scorer in the second best conference in the nation? </strong></em>Quincy Olivari. </p>
<p id="srJ6a4">And it’s not as if he’s an unlikable guy who shouldn’t be recognized because he’s hard to deal with. Quincy has been a display at show and tell, eaten lunch at elementary schools, visited fans at home, signed and given away posters, met countless little kids that idolize him, used his social media to connect with fans, boosted his teammates with online clips from their youth, and in general endeared himself to everyone who has met. The man cried talking about how much his dad meant to him at a press conference and completely glossed over the reason he was answering questions was because he’d just scored 43 points in a game.</p>
<p id="Cplcdk">Quincy Olivari is a first team all Big East player. Perhaps the other coaches were too scarred by what he did to vote for him. Maybe they wished he was playing for them. Maybe, surely in the case of Kolek, they just got caught up in the hype and didn’t actually bother to look at the numbers. Whatever the reason, the Big East messed up. Quincy, of course, didn’t care that much.</p>
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<p id="B8SUBz">First team.</p>
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