The Shootout has gone on for years, but it's the recent contests that will set the tone come Saturday.
It was the Crosstown Shootout that brought Banners on the Parkway to life. At some point in time all the invective two much younger men could build up had to find a public outlet somewhere and, very early in 2011, that was here. The Shootout probably holds a station something like that in the lives of most Xavier fans. Everyone can remember where they were when Lenny Brown hung in the air and made UC #2 in their own city (sick on the couch), when Lloyd Price picked Steve Logan at midcourt (pacing around the same couch), or when it all went sideways on Dez Wells (listening covertly during a family birthday lunch).