If there are questions out of this game, they won’t be about the offense. It took more than 9 minutes of basketball before Xavier even missed a shot; the Muskies had ripped off 27 points in that time, which should have been enough to leave Montana dead and buried.
It wasn’t, because the defense wasn’t keeping stride. When X missed for the first time, they had given up 17 points already, all of which had come in the first five and a half minutes of the ball game. They locked down a bit through the middle part of the half, but the effort once again slipped late on.