If you saw this coming last Sunday evening there’s a chance you are either a witch, or hopelessly, delusionally optimistic. A week ago Xavier was reeling from dropping the Crosstown Shootout and then just barely scraping past St. John’s after losing Edmond Sumner to one of those knee injuries that everyone who saw it instantly knew was bad. Now, Xavier has won two games by a combined four points but somehow injected the momentum into a season threatening to wither on the vine.
Xavier lacks a killer, but...
The Musketeers don’t have a killer in the Tu Holloway mold this season.