Xavier women’s basketball snaps 47-game Big East losing streak with win over Butler

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A banner weekend for Xavier University basketball ended with Sean Miller’s Musketeers pulling out a 59-57 road upset of No. 7 Marquette at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee.

It began with a breakthrough win for Xavier women’s basketball in Cincinnati. Xavier defeated Butler, 50-49, at Cintas Center Saturday afternoon to snap a 47-game regular season losing streak in Big East play.

“They felt like it was just a matter of time,” second-year Xavier head coach Billi Chambers said in her postgame on-court interview. “It was right at their fingertips. I’m just really glad to see them go out and fight to get one.”

The Xavier women’s basketball team won its first Big East game in nearly three years with a one-point victory over Butler at Cintas Center on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025.

Xavier opened up a nine-point lead after the first quarter and took a 24-19 advantage into the locker room.

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Xavier trailed 49-48 with less than 18 seconds remaining. Out of a timeout, forward Loren Christie’s go-ahead layup with six seconds left proved to be the game-winner.

Christie blocked Butler’s first game-winning attempt in the final seconds. The second was off the mark and corralled by Meri Kanerva at the final buzzer and Xavier had its first conference victory in nearly three years.

Xavier’s last Big East win was a 73-54 victory over Butler at Hinkle Fieldhouse on Feb. 20, 2022. Xavier hadn’t won a conference game inside Cintas Center since Dec. 29, 2021, also against Butler (77-55).

“Staying connected, staying composed, understandings that we truly had control of the game for the majority of it and we were gonna fight to the end to win it,” Chambers said.

Xavier second-year head coach Billi Chambers led the Musketeers to their first Big East win since 2022 on Saturday.

Kanerva, a 5-foot-9 freshman guard from Finland, led Xavier with 16 points on 7-of-10 shooting to go with four assists, three rebounds and two steals. Christie…

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Publish date : 2025-01-19 21:32:00

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