“Hello from beautiful Maui!” is the exact way I would open this article if I had traveled to Maui with the team. My salary as a humble public servant doesn’t allow for that, though, so I’ll be covering this week from equally scenic but almost infinitely more affordable Ohio.
Xavier’s first hurdle on their conquest of the big island (not to be confused with the Big Island, which is bigger and thus takes proper noun status) is Auburn. Bruce Pearl’s redemption project easily handled South Alabama and then ran a decent Washington team out of the gym in their season’s warmup games.