With the game tied and 8 minutes on the clock, I tweeted some thing or the next about it being winning time and wondering who wanted it. For the next three minutes, it looked like the answer was, “those dudes on DePaul.”
Then it clicked.
On the offensive end, a Xavier team that had been content to dribble into hopeless jump shots for most of the half suddenly discovered the joy of layups and ball movement again. Naji Marshall (a mind-garbling 16/14/4) got to the line and converted and Ryan Welage (17/3/1 on 5-8 from deep) dropped a Welly Bomb to spur a 5-0 to give X fans some hope.