Whatever is your least favorite thing about this Xavier team was on full display Saturday against DePaul. It might not have cost Xavier the game in isolation, but it definitely combined with everyone else’s least favorite things to leave Xavier on the wrong end of a very winnable game.
Maybe it’s slow starts. By the first media timeout, Xavier had just one point. It took the Muskies almost 6 minutes to score their first field goal. At that point, the bucket closed the gap to 5-3, as Xavier’s defense had been almost as good as their offense was incompetent.