Today marks the start of Shootout Week. This Saturday, the finest rivalry game college basketball has to offer will be contested, as Xavier travels just down the road to take on Cincinnati at Fifth Third Arena.
In tangential but ultimately vital news, the NCAA released its NET rankings today. As every college basketball fan knows, all of the nuance and passion of the entire season is ultimately ironed down to a series of numbers that will be pored over by the selection committee, and those numbers are largely dictated by the NET rankings.
Right now, Xavier is 48th in the NET; UC is 151st.