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03-20-2013, 12:43 PM
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Re: Xavier Basketball
I love that, for at least next year, it's going to be a true round-robin scheduling format for the 18 league games. It means we're guaranteed to get Georgetown, Marquette, and 'Nova in for home games. Should be rocking at Cintas!
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03-20-2013, 03:41 PM
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03-20-2013, 05:57 PM
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Tired of talk. Win!
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Re: Xavier Basketball
Congrats on the move to the Big East. It'll be good for the conference and X.
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03-20-2013, 07:56 PM
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Re: Xavier Basketball
I can't wait to see these teams enter the Cintas and leave in a daze.
I hope this is the beginning of a decades long relationship with this core of teams. Also that it's one that flourishes for all the teams involved. To that end, I believe 12 teams is the best fit for this conference in order to obtain an extra NCAA bid per year. It will be tough to get 6 NCAA bids from a 10 team league. Even 4 or 5 will be hard sometimes. I can't ever see it going below 3 though. One of the nice things is that some years going 14-4 in conference may not exclude a team from being top 5 or 10 in the country. I think in the A10 that was almost centainly never going to be the case. With this move, I think the likelihood that X gets into the top 5 for the first time is increased a lot. X still has a lot of milestones to reach. Top 5 ranking, #1 ranking, 1 or 2 seed in the NCAA, Final Four, Championship game, winning it all... Keeping perspective on where things have come from since the early 80's is quite something. Just a few years ago, they had 1 sweet 16 and a bunch of first and second round exits. The last 9 years have been an immense success, and yet, again, there is still so much more to do. It's going to be a blast. Can not wait. |
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03-26-2013, 04:55 PM
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Re: Xavier Basketball
This AD pick seems like a real dud.
BG is like the bottom of bottom feeders in D1 athletics (their last tourney appearance in hoops was pre-Armstrong on the Moon). I find it hard to believe X couldn't do better than this guy.
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03-26-2013, 05:22 PM
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Re: Xavier Basketball
Who knows? Certainly not a sexy hire, but there has to be some reason they wanted him. Right? Right?
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