What we have learned from the victory of Xavier Musketeers over Butler Bulldogs

Any university basketball coach would echo the feeling of wanting their team to play the best in February with the very important March.

Sean Miller’s Xavier musketeers do this exactly.

After having fought by a frontal calendar against the best teams of the Big East, Xavier now has a summit of seven games on 0,500 (17-10, 9-7 Big East) after a 76-63 victory against Butler in the Cintas Center on Tuesday on Tuesday Tuesday .

Similar to Saturday’s victory against Depaul, this victory will not give the musketeers a lot to go on the right side of the NCAA tournament bubble. However, it was another box check when it comes to avoiding the defeats of Curriculum Vitae.

Xavier remains perfect (10-0) in the 3/4 competition quadrant and improved at 13-2 at the Cintas Center this season. If the musketeers can continue to beat the teams, they should Beat, they will have a season of 20 wins and a case to be in the conversation for the NCAA tournament.

Observations of the victory of Xavier Musketeers on Butler Bulldogs

Xavier’s offensive has another balanced effort in Win Over Butler

Only two days after the five starters were two figures in a victory over Depaul, Xavier obtained contributions to the whole Tuesday evening against a defense of Butler which allows the second points in the Big East.

Xavier’s shooting performance in the second half, largely against a butler area, has spoiled what could have been a three-digit night, but Xavier has always punished the Bulldogs with four starters reaching the two figures.

Zach Freemantle and Ryan Conwell each finished with 14 after a slow start. Sophomore Dailyn Swain and Dayvion McKnight added 13 while Marcus Foster was the strange man finishing with nine.

Dante Maddox Jr. jumped Xavier’s Go-Ahead’s race first half, scoring his eight points in just under three minutes.

Xavier’s defense slows down the bulldog of red butler

Xavier’s head coach Sean Miller said that the rest of the musketeer season would be defined by the way his team defended, in particular in the second period.

Faced with an offense of butler who pulled 55% on the field, 49.2% on a 3 -point range and collected an average of 87.6 points per match on his sequence of three consecutive victories, Xavier kept the bulldogs in only 43.6% of the field. Butler buried only 6 out of 23 tests beyond the arc.

Despite the loss of the rebound battle (38-33), Xavier authorized only four offensive rebounds. Jahmyl Telfort led all the scorers with 20 while Butler Guards Finley Bizjack and Pierre Brooks finished with 14.

Towards not towards the 1st half-time ends with a giant Xavier race

In a confrontation of two offenses that have lit the Nets on fire in recent weeks, Butler and Xavier Tangoed in a first meeting with each unit operating with high efficiency.

The score was established at 19-19 during the media waiting period under 12 before Xavier’s offensive found other equipment and his defense finally struck consecutive stops.

Xavier made a sequence of 24-2 and led by no less than 21 in first half while holding Butler at only 12 points in the last 12:48 before the intermission. Xavier has built a big advantage thanks to a total team effort on the offensive side with seven players scoring at least five points of the 1st half.

Quincy Olivari returns to the Cintas Center

One of the noisiest reactions in the Cintas Center this season had nothing to do with the current Xavier team.

The loyal to the musket broke out during the last media period of the first half when Quincy Olivari was presented on the field where he made 70 of his school record in a single season of 106 three points last season.

Xavier goes to Newark this weekend

The last plane trip of the regular season of Xavier will be this weekend with the musketeers to visit Seton Hall on Sunday.

It is another quadrant 3 competition for Xavier against a Seton Hall team which is 2-13 in the league, but upset Uconn in overtime last Saturday.

This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Xavier Musketeers defeated Butler Bulldogs in Big East Basketball