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Former Xavier player turned coach Dante Jackson on Crosstown Shootout: 'It's a war'

Top things to know about one of basketball's biggest rivalry games. Amanda Rossmann, arossmann@enquirer.com

It’s unreasonably early in the morning and Dante Jackson can’t sleep.

Long before the sun is scheduled to make its first appearance, Jackson stares at the ceiling and thinks about the day ahead.

His mind races because he knows what this particular day means.

It's the reason relaxation is farther away than a sunset. When that sun finally sets on the day it will do so with another Crosstown Shootout in the history books.

The question that lives in the young mind of Dante Jackson is how this day will be remembered.