Yesterday was Big East media day. For the last couple of years, that has meant seeing just how many coaches think that this is the year that Xavier finally runs down Villanova. This year, things were a little different.
That’s Xavier languishing at sixth according to the Big East coaches. Ken Pomeroy’s system spits them out even lower with an 8-10 conference record, their worst in the Big East. Bart Torvik thinks they’ll go 10-8 in the conference, good for somewhere between third and fifth. You don’t have to go very far to find an outraged Xavier fan that either doesn’t know KenPom is a system, not a dude who guesses all 351 teams, or thinks that Big East coaches must be momentarily insane.