One of the key questions surrounding the Xavier University men's basketball team is how a roster full of first-year Musketeers can build off of the success of last season's Sweet 16 run.
Xavier lost eight players from last season's trip to the NCAA Tournament's regional semifinals and replaced those pieces with four players through the transfer portal and a 2023 recruiting class that is ranked 25th in the nation, according to 247Sports, and second in the Big East behind only defending-national champion Connecticut, which ranks fifth.