This hasn’t been a good season for Xavier. The signs were there early as the Musketeers struggled to get past teams like IUPUI and Evansville, got thumped at home by Wisconsin, and completely folded against Auburn. Recently, beating Detroit Mercy took a late rally and X made a meal of beating DePaul. In the macro it all adds up to a year destined to end at Madison Square Garden, but in the micro it looks even worse, largely because of an offense that has been consistently getting worse.
Xavier’s offense was supposed to be it’s comparative strength this year and, thanks to a mind bendingly bad defense, it has been, What it hasn’t been is actually good.