There's always hope that lives in the transfer portal. It's the same hope that resides in all recruiting.
It doesn't always work out, a fact that hasn't stopped or even slowed down hope.
But sometimes it does work out.
The hope was that Jack Nunge would be a difference-maker for Xavier's men's basketball team this season.
That's exactly what the 7-foot, 245-pound Iowa transfer has been through seven games.
Nunge's presence at both ends of the floor has completely changed Xavier's team. The former Castle High School star from Newburgh, Indiana, has been reliable and steady in a way that even his head coach wasn't completely expecting.