13 days ago Xavier tipped off a game at a strange time. At 430 in the afternoon they walked on to the court at MSG and played a game that would be a microcosm of their season. Xavier couldn’t make threes, couldn’t get stops, made a costly mental mistake, and ultimately torpedoed their at large chances by going 13-29 from the line. A very promising season went by the boards in an almost incomprehensible collapse.
Except, weirdly, we are still playing. Out of the wreckage of that game in New York a lot of things happened. First off, Xavier landed in the NIT.