Xavier loses twice per year to Villanova. This, evidently, has been etched in stone somewhere in the rules of college basketball. Despite that second loss, Xavier is still fourth in the country and, Wildcats excepted, looking like a match for anyone out there. That will be tested again in maintaining focus down the stretch run, and then again at the Garden where, hopefully, a run to the final lands Xavier a #1 seed. Here are the guys who are primed to do that.
The box score tells me that Harden saw time against Villanova but I’ll confess to having missed it.