The Enquirer/Patrick Brennan
For Xavier men's basketball, a season of great adversity and great expectations – a few of which weren't unrealized – ended the way most figured it would: With the Musketeers back in March Madness for the 11th time in 12 seasons.
Xavier (21-13 overall) battled in 2016-17 against a host of maladies, from injuries, to a would-be key player leaving the program, to the typical ebbs and flows of a college basketball season. In the end, they overcame it all.
The sum of their successes was confirmed Monday when it was annonced the Musketeers would enter the NCAA Tournament's West Region as an 11-seed and play the No.