This looked, at first, like more of the same. Xavier came out of the blocks slowly, taking ten minutes to score ten points. Against one of the top offenses in the nation, that seemed likely to doom them. How could this team, supposedly so poorly coached, allegedly lacking in development, a team whose more fickle fans had already relegated it to the bubble, possibly compete here?
Quite simply, by playing how they started to just two days prior. The Seton Hall loss was a building block. After that game Travis Steele said he felt as if he had his team back.