Over the last two decades, Xavier's men's basketball team has made a habit of playing its way into the NCAA Tournament and making some noise once they got there, but this season, the Musketeers did the opposite.
They played their way out of it.
When the NCAA Tournament field was announced on Sunday night, Xavier found itself on the outside looking in, likely wondering how it all went wrong.
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At the end of January, by most projections, Xavier looked like it was well on its way to its first NCAA Tournament under head coach Travis Steele.