News

Most everyone who picks up a basketball has a set of goals that hit most of the same highlights along the way. Become a standout high school player, get recruited by coaches up and down the country to ...
Panoam hails from Anchorage, Alaska, went to high school in Georgia, and spent a year at Tulane before transferring to North Dakota. Now he finds himself heading to Xavier with two years of college ...
First off, the numbers. Isaiah Walker, Richard Pitino’s latest transfer in, had a solid season last year. He averaged 10.8/5.8/2.2 and shot 46.4% from the floor and 32.7% from deep. From the free ...
Lassina Traore will go down as a Xavier legend the same way the Loch Ness monster is a Scottish legend. He arrived on campus, suffered and injury, never appeared in a game, and is now off again. He ...
We’ve all seen the pictures. While Justin Doellman lines up the free throws to ice an A-10 Tournament game, Stanley Burrell stands in the background, arms crossed in an unmistakable X above his head.
After Sean Miller chased the bag to Texas, Chris Mack's name came up in conversations about his replacement almost immediately. Mack - like Miller - already had one stint at Xavier, racking up over ...
40 minutes is not a lot longer than 30 minutes, really. If you can run for 30 minutes, another ten is unlikely to kill. If you have 40 minutes left in a shift at work it doesn’t seem like the next ten ...
After the “low point” that was the St. John’s game, you’d be forgiven for thinking this team might struggle on the road in Chicago. They did. For about 13 minutes. They then closed the half on a 21-3 ...
If you thought Seton Hall would follow the Xavier mold of winning the NIT and then keeping that core together for another run, you were tragically wrong. Last season, the Pirates exceeded expectations ...
Cam’Ron is a name that, for people of a certain age, conjures up a rapper from the Dipset. This is not that guy. (Also, that Cam’ron is 48 if you wanted to feel old). This Cam’Ron is also somewhat ...
Basketball is finally, sort of, back.The preseason intrasquad scrimmage is not even remotely about the result, but more a helpful reminder that college basketball season is around the corner. After ...