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BYU vs. St. John's (MoSun), 5:00, ESPN2 - Jon Sciambi, Jon Crispin
Line: BYU -1/155.5

Tennessee Tech @ Xavier, 7:00, FS1 -Eric Collins, Steve Lavin.
Line: Xavier -22.5/139.5

Seton Hall @ Rhode Island, 7:00, CBSSN - Jason Horowitz, Steve Lappas
Line: Seton Hall -2.5/149

Providence vs. Alabama, 7:15, ESPN2 - Roy Philpott, Cory Alexander
Maui Invit. 5th place
Line: Alabama -1.5/150.5

Atleast 2-2 would be nice.

X seems to be playing a soft-ish preseason slate. Each of these teams seem the same—small mid majors that lack in size but can give you problems with energy and timely scoring. Hoping they have some P6 games scheduled as well as they types of teams in conf play don’t look like the ones they’re now playing.

GumbyDamnit! wrote:X seems to be playing a soft-ish preseason slate. Each of these teams seem the same—small mid majors that lack in size but can give you problems with energy and timely scoring. Hoping they have some P6 games scheduled as well as they types of teams in conf play don’t look like the ones they’re now playing.

It will be interesting to see how Xavier performs against their strongest mid-major opponent - Cincinnati.

I think the schedule suits us quite well. Steele has to integrate a bunch of transfers and freshman into a new system that relies on scoring and shooters. Hasn't worked out so well yet but give it a little time. Afterall, this squad is led by a soph captain and we are missing two of our best shooters. We played 4 games in 5 days with 8 guys and another one tonite. Lot of work to do before BE rat race.

Husky_U wrote:

GumbyDamnit! wrote:X seems to be playing a soft-ish preseason slate. Each of these teams seem the same—small mid majors that lack in size but can give you problems with energy and timely scoring. Hoping they have some P6 games scheduled as well as they types of teams in conf play don’t look like the ones they’re now playing.

It will be interesting to see how Xavier performs against their strongest mid-major opponent - Cincinnati.

Ha ha ha. BTW, you might want to Ping Ken Massey, he's still got you as a Mid-Major. We need your top 70 rating over here where it belongs.

https://www.masseyratings.com/cb2021/200137

Husky_U wrote:

GumbyDamnit! wrote:X seems to be playing a soft-ish preseason slate. Each of these teams seem the same—small mid majors that lack in size but can give you problems with energy and timely scoring. Hoping they have some P6 games scheduled as well as they types of teams in conf play don’t look like the ones they’re now playing.

It will be interesting to see how Xavier performs against their strongest mid-major opponent - Cincinnati.

You have acclimated yourself very well around here, my good man. We are all not Bearcatty in Cincinnati.

GumbyDamnit! wrote:X seems to be playing a soft-ish preseason slate. Each of these teams seem the same—small mid majors that lack in size but can give you problems with energy and timely scoring. Hoping they have some P6 games scheduled as well as they types of teams in conf play don’t look like the ones they’re now playing.

I think they have a pretty strong OOC schedule. They have 6 games against mostly solid mid-majors and another vs Oklahoma. It's not exciting but on paper I think the OOC will help elevate their ranking.

Providence is crapping the bed against Alabama!? Wtf is happening this week?

Providence is getting blown out. Seton Hall is down. Not good.