Lost in the hoopla of The Big No. 203, or Xavier head coach Chris Mack's program-record 203rd win, was an entertaining and interesting basketball game against St. John's University.
The game ebbed and flowed as you'd expect from a Big East Conference contest, even though it was one pitting the No. 11-ranked team in America against a St. John's team missing one of its best players (Marcus LoVett was injured) and entered the game winless in league play.
Xavier, as it has at several points this season, made matters interesting and had to grind out the positive result, but they did eventually get that positive result via Wednesday's 88-82 loss at Cintas Center.