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How Travis Steele employs stats, analytics for Xavier's basketball team

Xavier played its most-complete game to date Wednesday in a dominant 82-55 win over the Miami RedHawks Adam Baum, abaum@enquirer.com

The ongoing advent of technology has made life progressively easier.

For a college basketball coach, the endless and ever-expanding trove of newfound data, statistics and in-depth analytics have created a unique perspective of the game that Xavier head coach Travis Steele spends quite a bit of time pondering.

There will always be the feel and instinct of the game that statistics can't replace and Steele certainly doesn't discount that.

"I think it's a little bit of both," Steele said Friday at his pre-game press conference ahead of hosting the Oakland Golden Grizzlies.