During the post-game press conference after Xavier buried Butler under an onslaught of offensive production, someone in the press corps asked Coach Steele if he was surprised the team didn't show any rust.
It's not hard to see where the question was coming from. The Muskies had just put together their most comprehensive offensive performance of the year in terms of both points per possession and adjusted offensive efficiency. X shot 27-49/10-22/23-27 and only turned the ball over 6 times. Everyone from Paul Scruggs to Jerome Hunter was cashing in buckets, and Adam Kunkel poured in a Xavier career high 25.