First, the obvious caveat. Southeastern Louisiana is not a very good basketball team. The Lions have finished in the top 200 in KenPom five times in their history, none since 2018. This was not going to be a test for Xavier no matter what happened. A bad result here would have been winning by 20.
That said, this was finally a Xavier team that tried to play some defense. The raw numbers are impressive. SE Louisiana shot 36.2% from the floor, 24.1% in the deciding first half. In the first half the Lions were 0-7 behind the arc.