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.
New York City – After checking what he could control over a sequence of seven consecutive victories and played in the conflicts of the NCAA tournament, Xavier has now left him in the hands of the selection committee.
On a massive occasion to consolidate its chances of a general offer at the NCAA tournament, Xavier came short of brand 25 in the quarter-finals of the Big East du Big East on Thursday, 89-87.
Xavier went from above all to a team planned to be a seeded n ° 8 in the NCAA tournament, but that is only going so far. Xavier is now 1-9 in Quad 1 and will have to wait two days to discover his spell in the playoffs.
“We desperately want to be part of the tournament,” said Xavier’s head coach Sean Miller.
Was Xavier’s victories sequence enough to enter the NCAA tournament?
Xavier now hopes that his sequence of seven consecutive victories to end the regular season was sufficient to push them in the field of 68 teams.
“We have won 12 of our last 16, seven in a row when arriving in today’s match. Obviously, we played against an excellent team on neutral field. I think that if someone looks at today’s game, I think you had two teams that are from the NCAA tournament that takes place there.”
Xavier went 21-10 in the regular season and 13-7 in Big East Play. No Big East team with at least 21 regular season wins have been excluded from the NCAA tournament since 2007.
“The 13 wins of Big East, the 21 victories in total, then what I really try to watch is just our level of play,” continued Miller. “We are one of the best shooting teams in 3 points in America. We are one of the best shooting teams being launched in America. Defensively, we have finished third in the Big East in terms of defensive efficiency. The quality of the game we have had for a long time, you know, for me, that is what we are holding.
“I know that, that during the last six to eight weeks, there are not too many teams in the country that have played at a higher level than our group. Today, we have played at a very high level.”
Xavier was considered one of the last teams of the NCAA tournament by several hookologists before the conference tournament. According to Sportsbook DraftkingsXavier was less than 300 to make the NCAA tournament before Thursday’s match with Marquette. It is an implicit probability of 75%.
During his two days of waiting until the selection on Sunday, Xavier will pay special attention to the other teams of the Bulle of the NCAA tournament. Xavier may not be penalized for losing another tight match against a tournament team, but other bubble programs could win and jump the musketeers, who have no more games to play a case.
Xavier is now serious to be hit by all tenders. An auction thief is a team that does not have a CV in general but which manages the table during the conference tournament to take an automatic offer at the NCAA tournament, taking an offer for bubble programs.
Xavier could be linked to Las Vegas
If Xavier was transmitted on Sunday, the musketeers would probably play in the new Crown basketball tournament in Las Vegaswhich takes place from March 31 to April 6.
The new tournament at 16 teams will play matches at the MGM Grand Garden Arena and T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Fox and FS1. The university basketball crown will give automatic offers to the two best teams from the Big East, Big 12 and Big 10 who were not selected for the NCAA tournament.
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