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Where: Dunkin' Donuts Center, Providence, RI Time: Noon ET TV: FOX (Justin Kutcher, Donny Marshall) Line: Xavier (-1.5) Last Year: Xavier won at home 82-56, and lost at Providence 75-63. Xavier is 2-0 in the Big East fresh off a home victory against a Butler team that previously took down the No. Continue to Article

January 05, 2018 12:00:am EST

Xavier head coach Chris Mack is singularly focused on his job. Mack loves Xavier University, his players and competing. It's a potent combination that, when combined in-season, doesn't leave room for much else for Mack and his staff.  Thus far in 2017-18, Mack has eschewed talk of Xavier' Continue to Article

January 02, 2018 5:26:pm EST

MILWAUKEE — Marquette head coach Steve Wojciechowski sent Xavier basketball off with the most effusive praise yet for the promising 2017-18 Musketeers side. "A team like Xavier, who has a chance to win a national championship," Wojciechowski said in his post-game news conference.  In the fraternity Continue to Article

December 28, 2017 3:03:pm EST

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) With conference play on the horizon, Xavier found itself in a hostile gym against a quality opponent – something the Musketeers will experience quite a bit in the weeks to come. Xavier held off multiple pushes from pesky Northern Iowa on Friday night in what it hopes is a sign Continue to Article

December 22, 2017 11:22:pm EST

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa — For all the technical, highbrow methods of dissecting basketball, it really is a pleasantly simple game.  Take Xavier's visit to the University of Northern Iowa Friday for instance. Xavier was nearly run out of UNI's McLeod Center because it turned the ball over 13 times in Continue to Article

December 22, 2017 8:16:pm EST