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(12-06-2018 01:24 PM)CliftonAve Wrote:  

(12-06-2018 01:21 PM)Banter Wrote:  

(12-06-2018 12:43 PM)stxrunner Wrote:  

(12-06-2018 11:14 AM)Banter Wrote:  I am sure it will be the same as most years. We probably lose by about 10, and people will point to one guy who gets "hot" against us, but the reality is most good teams beat us because they can shoot. When they get hot we can't keep up because we have never been a good shooting team since I started watching Basketball.

I have only seen us win 3 or 4 times agains Xavier, so I have always considered us the little brother. In my opinion they have a much better program than we do... Though I am sure I will get flamed or called a Xavier fan for my thoughts on the Shootout.

Lol, I'd love to hear your explanation for that. Most of the anger from UC's side should be directed at the fact that we've allowed their program to be on equal footing since they've been winning the H2H games for quite a while now, stealing a couple at our place despite our inability to be competent at Cintas.

What metric do you want me to use? Xavier is better than us in most of them since 2000-2001.

Since 2000-2001:

• 6-13 Head to head record
• less overall wins
• less times ranked to finish the season
• less NCAA tourneys
• less conference titles
• much worse tournament record
• less All Americans
  

But we can always say we have more Final Four appearances...even though as a 30 year old I would have been 4 the last time that happened , and I would have been 8 the last time UC made it to the Elite 8...meanwhile Xavier has made it to the Elite Eight multiple times since the turn of the century.

We have not been the better team or program for over 20 years.

Someone will respond with a Kenpom stat

Dang. 6-13 Is all you need to know. Regardless of the circumstances, rebuild, excuses.