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Xavier basketball picked 6th in Big East preseason poll: 'We'll use it as motivation'

A player-by-player breakdown of Xavier's 2018-2019 basketball roster Adam Baum, abaum@enquirer.com

NEW YORK – The Big East released its preseason coaches' poll Thursday at media day at Madison Square Garden and Xavier, the defending regular-season champion, was picked to finish sixth and only landed one player on the preseason all-conference team.

Defending NCAA national champion Villanova was picked to win the Big East with eight first-place votes, followed by Marquette – its highest preseason ranking since 2013-2014 – and Providence in third, the highest preseason ranking for the Friars in the current 10-team Big East alignment.