The NCAA tournament bubble is as troubled as ever in the last week of the regular season.
According to your source, Xavier is either one of the last teams in the field of the NCAA tournament, or just below the cup line after beating Creighton easily at the Cintas Center on Saturday afternoon.
On the one hand, Teamrankings.com gives the musketeers a 68.6% chance of reaching the NCAA tournament. On the other hand, Fox Sports Mike Decourcy And Joe Lunate d’Espn Have Xavier as one of the “first four” in the separate Sunday updates.
As mathematician John Allen Paulos said one day, “uncertainty is the only certainty.”
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While the media and fans look at everything, from a large -scale point of view, while Sunday selection is looming, the well -known answer “One Game at Time” coaches often use a weight. This is the boat that Xavier is with an indefinite after-season future before Wednesday’s trip to Hinkle Fieldhouse to meet Butler.
“Life is only on the bubble if you allow it,” Xavier head coach said on Saturday. “I don’t really look at him as if we were on or next to how we can be ready, what should we do to be better and how can I get these guys to be the best group we can be against Butler?”
Xavier’s “Mamba mentality” and the NCAA tournament bubble
While the late Kobe Bryant has never known March Madness’s apparatus, his state of mind is always used as inspiration by all, including university programs that are fighting for a large -scale offer.
As Bryant said“Mamba’s mentality is to focus on the process and trust hard work when it is most important.”
For Xavier, it counts the most in March. Musketeers are suitable that the work they have put since summer will be enough to transport them to the section. That the team’s collective reader will give them the fuel to block any outside noise, check a box and go to the next task.
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“One of the things he (Bruy) has talked a lot is to be intrepid … To put yourself there and be ready to risk it. It may not be fine. I think that when you start talking about the bubble, you agree:” Oh my God, and if it appears? “It creates this state of mind of good, evil, what is?” It’s about trying to be great. It’s about being ready. First, you must be arranged, as a team, to put yourself there and to go there.
“Our team has done a good job. We have to continue doing a good job.
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“We are trying to stay in the moment.
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Dante Maddox Jr., whose father is Bloom High School’s head coach in Chicago, only clips a breath of projections from March Madness watching a game on television.
“We are trying to stay in the moment a game at a time and focus on this,” said Maddox, who came out of the bench for Cal State Fullerton in a loss of NCAA tournament in the first round against Duke in 2022. “We understand that if we manage our business, we will put ourselves in a fairly good position.
He is right. Most bubble teams will play disappearance for a general offer. Given a sequence of five consecutive victories, Xavier follows the pace by controlling what he can control.
History tells us that Xavier will dance if he manages his belongings this week against Butler and Providence. This would place the musketeers at 21-10 before the Big East tournament. The last 71 Big East teams with 21 regular season wins before the conference tournament were selected.
“We have a lot of guys who are very motivated in the right direction,” said Miller.
Xavier’s female basketball is preparing for the Big East tournament
Xavier women’s basketball ended the regular season on a sequence of 11 consecutive defeats after the defeat of 59-57 on Sunday against Seton Hall at the Cintas Center.
Xavier (6-23, 1-17 Big East) experienced an improvement in five games in the Victories column in the second year Head coach Billi Chambers After spending 1-27 last season.
Xavier is seed n ° 11 in the Big East tournamentWhich starts this week at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. Xavier will face No. 6 DEPAUL in the first round on Friday at 4 p.m.
Xavier fell in Depaul 65-60 at home 2 and 57-50 January in Chicago on January 22.
This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Xavier using Kobe Bryant’s “Mamba mentality” on the NCAA tournament bubble
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