What Does it Mean? – Yahoo Sports

Xavier beat UC in the Crosstown Shootout on Friday. This is becoming so routine as to barely qualify as news, but I figured you’d want to remember it. That win was big for the fanbase, the city, and the program. It was an awesome game and will forever be remembered for Tre Carroll’s frenetic circuit of the Cintas in the waning seconds.

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What it won’t be remembered for is being a great win for the resume. UC was a Q3 home win. To put it bluntly, the Bearcats suck. This game did nothing to help Xavier’s resume. But wait, I can hear you thinking, why does any of that matter? Isn’t this just the season of fun and friendship?

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Well… Xavier messed around and accidentally started playing some good basketball. Not great basketball, but 40th in efficiency over the last six games. 40th is the position of a team with tournament ambition. Now, the committee is not going to look at the season from November 17th on. If they did, great news all, we’re watching the Musketeers in mid-March with that fun feeling of fear, excitement, and horror that lingers over tournament games.

But the season didn’t start then. Overall Xavier is mid 80s depending on which efficiency service you prefer. Beat UC dropped the Musketeers on KenPom. In the days surrounding that game they were 81st, 83rd, and now 84th. Want to taunt a Bearcat fan? Mention that beating them with a normal score doesn’t impress the computers at all. Xavier needs that number to jump because it feeds the all-important NET. Santa Clara is only a Q2 loss. The deficit is what is crippling the numbers. Pummeling a good team would help.

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Because the NET isn’t good. Xavier is 109th as of this typing. I don’t need to tell you, but will, that number only gets you in if you win a conference tournament. If you think Xavier is beating UConn to finish running the table right now, God bless you. Here’s the good news: teams have risen from…

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