That was brutal to watch, but now it's over and we can talk about it all week. Hooray!
With about 15 minutes left in the game, I got a text from my dad declaring that Xavier "had a good run" and hoping we'd get an NIT bid. Stiff upper lip, Dad; England expects every man do his duty and all that. From that point on Xavier did a bit of battling back, but it wasn't every quite enough to get over the hump as the 17,000+ Creighton faithful sitting from the floor to the ceiling in the Century Link Center exhorted the home team to victory.