You should not be shooting meaningful free throws in buy game to start the season. These are tune ups in which you score 100, throw down some fun dunks, and remind the fans that basketball is back and is fun. Unless you are Xavier this year. In that case you need your senior guard to take a game over, you need a transfer to make four big free throws, and you suck the air right out of a building ready to go wild. If a win can be deflating, Xavier just pulled it off. And they made looking bad look easy.
Xavier 63-60 Niagara: Recap and takeaways from an opener to forget
