What was the best you dared hope for from this game? Florida State came in all pace and power, the Dallas Carter to Xavier’s Odessa Permian, right down to Edmond “Boobie Miles” Sumner being felled by a knee injury. The NBA on TNT staff explained to me that Xavier probably didn’t have a chance today. Brad sat on the couch next to me giving himself a nice pregame ulcer about how he hoped this didn’t turn into a boat race.
It did. It wasn’t the one he was worried about.
Xavier got out to a hot start, with Coach Mack employing a variety of zone defenses to keep the Seminoles off balance.