A baseball season usually ends one of two ways.
If a team’s talented enough – and a little bit lucky – to win a championship, it ends near the pitcher’s mound in a dogpile of players, or it ends in the outfield, a place where teams often congregate one last time, huddled up with arms around each other after a loss.
For Xavier University, it ended Thursday, March 12, in a hotel lobby in Southern California.
The night before, the Musketeers played USC and that’s when the NBA suspended its season amid concerns over the novel coronavirus pandemic.