Like every other college basketball team, the Xavier Musketeers will get the chance to prove what they can be.
One game doesn't determine anything in early November. But how Xavier responds to what happens early in the season will be very telling.
There was good and bad – more than the Musketeers would have liked – on Tuesday in Xavier's 63-60 season-opening win over Niagara and it's worth dissecting all of it.
First, the good.
Paul Scruggs was clutch
The fifth-year senior sensed the urgency that was required late in the game and he made winning plays.