In basketball, timing is almost everything. If you throw a pass a split second too early it sails into the crowd. If you throw it too late it is intercepted by an opponent. If you dunk a ball a split second after the buzzer in, say, an 8-9 game in the 2016 NCAA Tournament, the points don’t count and your rivals find it really funny. All of that is to say that the timing of Jonas Hayes’ ascent to the end seat (figuratively) on Xavier’s bench was probably not what he had in mind for his first time being the man in charge of a college basketball team.
Jonas Hayes is on fire
