Before Tuesday night’s game, Xavier head coach Travis Steele remarked that the Musketeers needed to be the tougher team for forty minutes. He got that toughness in the first half. For the last twenty minutes, it turned into a classic Villanova showing.
Early on, the Xavier Musketeers (11-2, 1-1) seemed to be well on their way to their first victory against the Villanova Wildcats (8-4, 1-1) at Finneran Pavillion. Everything was falling for them, even shots not aimed at the basket.
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That accidental 3-pointer sums up the first twenty minutes of this one.