Finally!  The Reds, Bengals, and FC Cincinnati showed us how not to play this year so it's time to see some wins. 

Tyrique Jones, Naji Marshall, Quentin Gooden, Paul Scruggs, and Jason Carter are the expected starting 5 this year.  The team is projected to finish 3rd in the Big East but it's a long season...Anything can happen!

Let's Go Muskies!
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Never count out Xavier!  After losing 6 in a row, we've now won 5 in a row and climbed from last place to 3rd in the Big East.  Next in the cross hairs is Butler on the road.  This team has shown heart and it's been more evident than ever in their performance over the past couple weeks.  As excited as this run has been, the future is equally exciting with the great core we have coming back next year plus a great recruiting class coming in.  Let's Go Muskies!!!
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Butler just took down #1 Villanova on Saturday and heads to Cintas Center tonight to play #5 Xavier. 

LET'S GO MUSKIES!
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With Macura, Gates, and Marshall all banged up and questionable to play, Xavier heads to a tough venue in Northern Iowa. Northern Iowa is 8-3 thus far and 6-0 at home.

Let's hope the Muskies get healthy quick and are ready for this challenging road game prior to Christmas. Tip-off is 9:30 on Friday.

Go Muskies!
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Xavier and Baylor are both in the top 25 rankings when they square off.  Last year, Xavier went to Baylor and played well in the first half but were outplayed in the 2nd half and lost to the Bears.

Let's get this win! GO X!
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GW down, Arizona State up next. Moving on to the title game! Let's go Muskies!!!
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We owe Wisconsin a loss after they knocked us out of the tourney 2 years ago.

Let's go get a "W"! Let's go Muskies!!!
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Xavier goes for 2-0 vs the Rider Broncs at Cintas tonight!

Go Muskies!!!
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HERE WE GO!!!

LET'S GO MUSKIES!!!
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LET'S GO MUSKIES!!!
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A Sweet 16 spot is on the line as X takes on the 3 seed Florida State!

LET'S GO MUSKIES!!!
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Xavier's dance ticket is to Orlando.

Let's take down the Terrapins of Maryland!

LET'S GO MUSKIES!!!
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NCAA Ticket punched! With a big load carried by Trevon Bleuitt last night, the Muskies pulled out the upset win over Butler! Butler has not won a Big East Tourney game since joining the league 4 years ago. Sorry Butler.

Next up - Creighton!  

LET'S GO MUSKIES!!!
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Down to a 7-man rotation with Tyrique Jones out for concussion protocol. NCAA bid on the line. Against Butler. Doesn't get much bigger than this!

LET'S GO MUSKIES!!!
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(Sorry the site has been dormant for a while, it's hard to endure all the losing)

Xavier has dropped 6 in a row, all to teams competing for or definitely in the NCAA Tournament, but still inexcusable.  We've fallen from a cool 8-3 Big East record, competing for 2nd place in the league, to now 8-9 and locked into the 7th spot.  We play at DePaul Saturday and then will play the Blue Demons again next week in Round 1 of the Big East Tournament.

Please let the Muskies win the next couple games!!! C...
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The highs and lows of college basketball, right???  No Sumner but we win at home vs Seton Hall and at ranked-Creighton!  Going for 4 in a row at Cintas Center tonight. Let's beat DePaul!

Let's Go Muskies!
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Xavier has won 3 Shootouts in a row and 7 of the last 9. Surely UC is due for a win this year....right?  UC is at home and favored by 4.5 points by Vegas.

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In our first true road game of the year, it doesn't get much tougher than this! Baylor is 3-0 vs ranked teams in the early season so far. X and Baylor are 2 of the 15 undefeated teams left in the NCAA.

Let's go Muskies!!!
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Xavier tips off the regular season tonight against Lehigh.

Fun Facts:

• Lehigh University is a private school in Bethlehem, PA with about 5,000 undergrad and 2,000 grad students. (A few hundred students different from Xavier)
  
• They've made the NCAA Tourney 5 times, most recently in 2012 as a #15 seed where they upset #2 Duke and then fell to our beloved Musketeers in the Round of 32
  
• Mascot is the Mountain Hawks. They were the Engineers from 1865 until 1995.

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Here we go! For those of us (most of us) who don't know, Ferris State is in Big Rapids, Michigan. They have just shy of 15,000 students and their colors are crimson and gold. They play DII in all sports except DI in hockey.

Hailing from Ferris State have been a handful of NHL players as well as the current Tennessee Vols head football coach, Butch Jones.

GO X!
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Season tickets have been mailed. The schedule is out. Let's play some basketball!

The exhibition game is Nov 5th at 7pm and the regular season tip-off is November 11th at 7pm!

GO MUSKIES!!!
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The schedule is out today! Have a look!  Gotta love seeing the national TV games!
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Students are moving in at Xavier but Eddie Ekiyor is not.  Rick Broering just broke the news.

@RickBroering Official from XU: Eddie Ekiyor is no longer enrolled at Xavier. He will enroll for the fall semester at Carleton University in Canada 

This was certainly unexpected, at least for Xavier fans.  Assuming Malcolm Bernard is on the roster this fall (not actually official yet), this leaves the Musketeers with just 10 scholarship players this year.  The number is 11 if you count Tim Stainbrook ...
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Thanks to Coach Mack and company, seems like most Xavier off-seasons are about reloading, not rebuilding. This off-season is no exception.  Practice for Xavier's 95th men's hoops team has already begun and new to the Musketeers this year are Freshmen Quentin Goodin, Tyrique Jones, and Eddie Ekiyor, as well as 5th-year Senior transfer, Malcolm Bernard.

Xavier has also received a verbal commitment from 3-start Small Forward Jared Ridder, out of Springfield, MO. Ridder will be a Freshman on the 2...
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Xavier handled 15-seed Weber State without much trouble Friday. Wisconsin edged out PIttsburgh 47-43 in Round 1 (lowest scoring NCAA Tourney game since 1999) and will face X on Sunday.

Wisconsin played Duke for the National Championship last year and they return a few players from that great team. Should be a formidable opponent for the Muskies but if X plays their "A" game, they should get out alive. Look for the veteran Muskies to step up again!

GOTTA GET IT! LET'S GO MUSKIES!!!
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The Muskies did not end the Big East tournament the way they would've liked but that's behind us now as the field is set and the Big Dance is starting Thursday afternoon!

Xavier landed a #2 seed, the highest seed in school history. They're in the tough, but winnable East region. #2 Xavier plays #15 Weber State in St. Louis. Wisconsin, who played in the National Championship game last year, could be who X faces should they win Friday. UNC, UK, Indiana, and West Virginia are all potential oppone...
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HERE WE GO! 

LET'S GO MUSKIES!!!
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XAVIER WINS! XAVIER WINS XAVIER WINS!!!
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A lot of history will be made on Wednesday:

- The 2 schools tied with each other with the best record in the country currently (24-3) will be playing each other.
- Xavier has not beaten Villanova since joining the Big East.
- Cintas Center has never hosted a game between top 5 teams and never hosted a game involving a #1 ranked team.
- In school history, Xavier has never played in a game where both teams were ranked in the top 5.
- Xavier has beaten the #1 team in the nation 3 times in program his...

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Xavier made up for their onlyhome loss of the season with a solid win over Georgetown in Washington, D.C. on Saturday.

Next up, another Revenge game and the games don't get any bigger than this....#1 Villanova will be at Cintas Wednesday night!  Preview to come.
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(Couldn't stop myself from posting the pic above, an old favorite!)

Xavier looks to keep a stronghold on the 2nd spot in the Big East while Providence is trying to avoid another loss after a rough patch of late.

Can we slow down Bentil and Dunn?  Expect Xavier to run a lot of 1-3-1 zone defense as the Friars are not a great 3-point shooting team and this will eliminate having to guard Dunn 1 on 1.  I would also expect a fast pace of play by the Muskies as Xavier's bench is deeper and can handle...
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In what will surely be one of the toughest games of the year, undefeated Xavier heads to Philly to play Villanova at NOON on New Year's Eve. Nova is 10-2 with their 2 losses coming at the hands of Top 10 schools, away from home.

Expect a battle!  LET'S GO MUSKIES!!!
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9-0 Xavier hosts 8-1 Cincy on national TV (Fox 5:30pm) on Saturday!

Gonna be a good one! Xavier has scored 90+ in 3 straight games while UC has a solid defense this year, as usual.

Both teams are talented and playing great defense right now.

There has been at least one Technical Foul in 7 of the last 8 Shootouts! The exception was the first game after the good old fight...

LET'S GO MUSKIES!!!
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Our most hated rival of yesteryear advanced through the bottom of the bracket so Xavier faces Dayton today at 4:30 (ESPN2). Both team are undefeated, Xavier is a 3 point favorite according to Vegas. This should be a good one!

Check out #ThingsILikeMoreThanDayton on Twitter for some great laughs. Some Dayton fans are going with the classy hashtag of #FUXU so there's that.

Let's GO MUSKIES!!!
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Xavier took advantage of their first road trip of the young season and beat up the 24th-ranked Michigan Wolverines, 86-70. Despite foul trouble, the Muskies played great with scoring coming from all over the roster. Jalen Reynolds, Remy Abell, and Trevon Bluiett all scored 15, and Myles Davis scored 14. Sumner had 9; Farr and Macura had 8 each.  Xavier out-rebounded Michigan 47 to 29!

Xavier has now won 9 of their last 11 games against Big Ten teams.

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The Muskies looked ugly at home vs Missouri but still got the win so we'll take it. X is 2-0 and heads to Michigan for a late night tip-off against Michigan.  

Michigan is coming off a rough season but their 2 best players were hurt all year. They are back and healthy and ranked 24th in the nation.  It will take a big game from our Muskies to knock off Michigan but this is a talented bunch. Let's go Muskies!!!
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