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Saturday, December 10th, 2022
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The Bearcats (6-3, KenPom #71) host Xavier (6-3, KenPom #29) for the 90th edition of the Crosstown Shootout this weekend in Clifton.

The Musketeers’ three losses have all came at the hands of teams currently ranked in the AP Top 25 poll (Indiana, Duke, and Gonzaga), but they’ve still managed to beat two (near) top 50 KenPom teams already in Florida (#52) and most recently, West Virginia (#25).

Xavier returns 3 starters from last season's NIT Champion squad in 6'11 C Jack Nunge (15.2 ppg, 7.6 rpg), 6'9 F Zach Freemantle (13.0 ppg, 6.9 rpg), and 6'5 wing Colby Jones (15.1 ppg, 5.1 rpg, 5.8 apg).

The Musketeers rank 9th in KenPom's AdjO and have been one of the country's best 3-point shooting teams through the first month of the season as they are shooting 43% from deep.

The Bearcats lead the all-time series 51-38 but have not beaten Xavier since 2018 - Mick Cronin's last year in Clifton.
 
Not feeling positive in this one for the Bearcats. Sorry for the negative post.

XU was damn impressive in the games against Gonzaga and West Virginia.

That West Virginia team, which I remember better b/c I just watched it on Monday, is really one of the better teams I remember Bob Huggins having at that school. To look at the players you'd think they should have handled X easily. Well, they started to in the first half, but X was pretty balanced scoring and they just wore them down.

Our best shot is if we can get them in foul trouble and keep going to the line. Unless Davenport and Nolley have one of those unconscious shooting nights, we will not out rebound them for second chance points. I just don't see the rebounding on this team as strong as these guys.
 
sirthought said:
Not feeling positive in this one for the Bearcats. Sorry for the negative post.

XU was damn impressive in the games against Gonzaga and West Virginia.

That West Virginia team, which I remember better b/c I just watched it on Monday, is really one of the better teams I remember Bob Huggins having at that school. To look at the players you'd think they should have handled X easily. Well, they started to in the first half, but X was pretty balanced scoring and they just wore them down.

Our best shot is if we can get them in foul trouble and keep going to the line. Unless Davenport and Nolley have one of those unconscious shooting nights, we will not out rebound them for second chance points. I just don't see the rebounding on this team as strong as these guys.
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I'm in the same boat as you. Seems like we'll need a perfect storm on both ends of the court just for the game to be competitive for 40 minutes.

The good news is that this is Xavier's first true road game of the season.

We need the home court advantage to work in our favor big time.
 
Xavier is shooting 43% from three on the season, good for second in the country. They don't shoot very many though, with only 28% of field goal attempts coming from behind the arc. They are excellent at getting to the rim, where they take 47% of their shots. That leads to a top ten offense in the nation.

They aren't a great defensive rebounding team and they turn it over more than average. So other than three point shooting and rebounding which are always important, the keys to the game will be interior defense and creating turnovers.
 
I can't wait until we get a PG that doesn't have look over at coach every possession. It's been over 15yrs.
 
MAW and DDJ at least play defense and play like they care. Davenport and Nolley on the other hand... I'd be okay with benching both of them. Davenport's shot selection is horrible and Nolley checks out if he's not getting open looks.

Skillings, Reed and Hensley may make more mistakes, but at least they play defense and give it their all.
 
We don't run offense. How can you consistently beat good teams like that, even if we get better players? The warning signs were there when we hired Miller.
 
Offense is a disaster. Stand around and chuck bad shots.

Defense is a disaster. Number of straight line drives allowed is unbelievable.

Coach may be a disaster.

What a joke of a team.
 
sedziobs said:
We don't run offense. How can you consistently beat good teams like that, even if we get better players? The warning signs were there when we hired Miller.
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For weak offense we score a lot of points. Im thinking it's more coach problems than players. Vik should touch ball every possession.
 
Could you imagine one of them uncoordinated bigs under UC on this team? Mick found them with ease and we all complained. If we got Gaines instead of Phil and had any big under Mick this team might be undefeated. It's bad but that bad with the players.
 
To keep Nolley from checking out he needs to be FULL TIME PG from here on out.

Nolley
Skillings
Reed
Ogy
Vik
 
Kunkel one trick pony so it's easy to defend him with discipline. More likely 2* recruit coming out of high school just destroyed a four yr Shootout player and won his team the game. MAW and JD seriously shouldn't play no more 6-8min game.
 
Administration a clown show also. Why not move the sweater crowd to end where students sit? Nobody in middle stands and cheer because of old age. Nana and Papa need give their tickets to kids and grands or get the hell on.
 
Yeah, Davenport at the 4 has to stop. The game completely changed when we had Ody in there alongside Lakhin. Both on offense and defense.
 
TheRealMick said:
For weak offense we score a lot of points. Im thinking it's more coach problems than players. Vik should touch ball every possession.
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77 points in 76 possessions isn't a lot. We really picked it up in the second half when DDJ started hitting his really difficult shots, not because we started running an efficient offense. Having Ody in there gave us another interior scoring option, but it also helped just not having the ball stick in Davenport's hands.

Ody and Lakhin were 7 for 9 at the rim. Throw in Hensley and we were 8 for 10 with our bigs. That's how you score efficiently. Davenport had no rim attempts, and Nolley just had the one dunk where the seas parted from the top of the key. Since our wings can't get to the rim, the only real option to score inside is with multiple post players.
 

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