Watch: Sean Miller by Xavier, Ryan Conwell on the loss against Marquette
Xavier’s Big East tournament ended in the quarter-finals on Thursday after a defeat of 89-87 against Marquette at Madison Square Garden.
If the last 48 hours for Xavier’s male basketball could be summarized by a whim, you would probably make the head sign Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers of 44 years ago.
“Waiting is the most difficult part.”
Xavier had a few exhausting days for stew during the defeat of the Big East tournament Thursday against Marquette at Madison Square Garden while paying attention to what is happening throughout the week of the conference tournament across the country. This is the life of a team on the bubble which is a real flip of room to make the NCAA tournament.
Does Xavier? Out? Dayton for the first four or Las Vegas for the Crown basketball tournament? The musketeers will discover it as soon as the The calendar goes to the selection on Sunday (6 p.m., CBS).
The case of Xavier Musketeers to make the NCAA tournament
Xavier finished the regular season on a sequence of seven consecutive victories and culminated at the right time before an early outing of the Big East tournament. According to BarttorvikXavier has been team n ° 20 in the country since this victory sequence began in mid-February.
Xavier is N ° 43 in Kenpomwhich is ahead of the other teams of Boise State bubbles (44), the state of Colorado (45) and Indiana (48). Xavier ranks n ° 53 in the country in offensive efficiency and contains several stellar metrics in certain key areas such as three -point shot (n ° 6), frank shot (n ° 8) and the percentage of objectives for the field (n ° 4).
Xavier ranked fourth in the Big East in defensive efficiency (44th in total).
“In the past six to eight weeks, there are not too many teams in the country that have played at a higher level than our group,” Xavier head coach said on Thursday.
Xavier hopes that 21 regular season victories and a 13-7 brand in the Big East will be enough to put them in the dance. No Big East team with 21 regular season victories has missed the NCAA tournament since 2007.
Xavier would also argue that he lost his best player at Zach Freemantle at the start of the Big East calendar and has always played at a high level. Freemantle missed a defeat in overtime in Uconn and a two -point defeat against Marquette. After a victory on Seton Hall on December 31, Freemantle had to shake the rust hastily and Xavier fell to Georgetown.
“If someone in university basketballs lost their best player in the heart of the conference season for three weeks, it will not be their advantage,” Miller said after Xavier’s victory over Providence on March 8. “Not only when it came out, but when it comes back, you don’t get your finger and don’t get the ground. I think it’s also part of our history.”
Freemantle returned to help Xavier regularly seasonal victories on Uconn and Marquette. The musketeers have won 12 of their last 16 games after a Big East start of 1-4.
Xavier’s criticism would say that his sequence of seven consecutive victories included only one victory over a tournament team. But it was a 22 -point root from Creighton and Xavier managed its activities during this sequence with an average margin of two -digit victory (12.7 points).
The case against Xavier Musketeers making an NCAA tournament
Bubble teams such as North Carolina, either Boise State or Colorado State, San Diego State and Indiana had stronger non-conference schedules than Xavier (n ° 211).
The biggest problem with Xavier’s CV is that its 1-9 record in the Quad 1 games spring as a painful thumb. Xavier was in good position to improve this record, but had several “what?” A few moments after abandoning the slopes on the road to St. John’s, TCU, UC and Thursday against Marquette.
But the quad 1 victories are not the whole story. The occupier of current Bubbles of Texas has seven quad 1 victories, but has only 12-15 in total in quad 1-3 combined. Xavier fans know that Quad 1 victories are only part of history. Travis Steele final The Xavier team won six Quad 1 victories in 2022 and missed the dance.
While 1-9 in Quad 1 is a horror, Xavier has no brutal losses to his credit, spending 20-2 in 2-4 combined quads.
Xavier ranks n ° 39 in the ESPN basketball power index (BPI), which is behind bubble teams such as Texas (n ° 34), North Carolina (n ° 26) but in advance on some others such as Indiana (n ° 52) and the state of San Diego (n ° 53).
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