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Answers to your Xavier questions
Now that the Musketeers’ basketball season has ended, here is what’s on the horizon for the team. Who’s back next year? Aside from seniors Brad Redford, Jeff Robinson and Travis Taylor, everyone else is expected to return for the 2013-14 season. Asked...
Posted: 3/18/2013 11:04 AM in Xavier Sports
The season’s end
Although ESPN Bracketology expert Joe Lunardi expected Xavier to get an NIT bid, that fate looked less and less likely as the bracket unfolded tonight on ESPNU. The 32-team tournament eventually featured one team Xavier beat (Robert Morris) and five it...
Posted: 3/17/2013 11:21 PM in Xavier Sports
Xavier and the NIT
It’s likely that Xavier will be in the mix for a National Invitation Tournament bid tomorrow after the NCAA tournament selection show is complete. The NIT Selection Show is at 9 p.m. Sunday on ESPNU. The team enters the fray with a 17-14 record and losses...
Posted: 3/16/2013 5:01 PM in Xavier Sports
Big East move coming soon
Xavier’s move from the Atlantic 10 to the new Big East is expected to transpire mid-week, according to sources. Butler is in the same boat per this story from the Indianapolis Star. Xavier, like Butler, will face a $2 million exit fee from the A-10 –...
Posted: 3/16/2013 12:27 PM in Xavier Sports
Notes from the Saint Joseph’s loss
Langston Galloway buried two free throws with 1.4 seconds left to give Saint Joseph’s a 58-57 lead over Xavier, and the Musketeers’ final possession ended in heartbreak when Isaiah Philmore’s point-blank shot bounced off the rim before time expired. The...
Posted: 3/14/2013 11:46 PM in Xavier Sports
Updates: Xavier vs. St. Joseph’s
The Atlantic 10 tournament is underway as the seventh-seeded Musketeers take on the 10th-seeded Hawks at 6:30 p.m. at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Get live updates from the game from Shannon Russell in our live look-in module below: Updates: Xavier...
Posted: 3/14/2013 6:03 PM in Xavier Sports
Report: Bjorn named XU athletic director
UPDATE: Sources here in Brooklyn said the following report is premature and thus inaccurate. Xavier also disputed the report. FROM EARLIER: Citing independent sources, this report says Rhode Island’s Thorr Bjorn has accepted the athletic director job...
Posted: 3/14/2013 12:18 PM in Xavier Sports
Men’s hoops notebook
Greetings from Brooklyn, where the Musketeers face Saint Joseph’s at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow in the first round of the Atlantic 10 tournament. All the practices at the Barclays Center are closed today, per tournament rules, so it’s a good night to enjoy the...
Posted: 3/13/2013 7:38 PM in Xavier Sports
Christon named A-10 rookie of the year
A day after picking up a Xavier-record seventh Atlantic 10 rookie of the week honor, freshman Semaj Christon was named the conference’s rookie of the year. Christon was also named to the all-conference second team and all-rookie team. Travis Taylor garnered...
Posted: 3/12/2013 1:13 PM in Xavier Sports
Thorr Bjorn linked to AD opening
Rhode Island athletic director Thorr Bjorn is a candidate for the Xavier athletic director vacancy, per this story from the Providence Journal. Xavier’s search for Mike Bobinski’s replacement could be determined fairly soon. Whether it will be Bjorn or...
Posted: 3/12/2013 11:58 AM in Xavier Sports
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