Let’s get this out of the way early on, just so there’s no confusion: Xavier did not look good on Tuesday. In fumbling through a game against a team squarely in the mid-200s in most analytic rankings, in shooting 8-27 from three despite starting 4-5, in needing to seal the game from the line late on, and in 100 different facets clear to anyone who watched the game or knows how to look up the box score, the looked a lot less like the well-oiled machine we were hoping would come out of the summer.
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Xavier dropped 5 spots in Bart Torvik’s rankings after that performance.