Game Time March 9, 2022 at 4:30pm ET
The Big East tournament is always a fun one to watch. Despite it being full of relatively small schools, the conference always churns out some strong competition at the tournament in March. This year the tournament gets underway with tenth place Butler taking on seventh place Xavier at Madison Square Garden in New York. These two squads met at the start of February where Xavier eked out a victory by the score of 68-66. Both teams come limping into the tournament as Butler is 2-8 in its last ten games and Xavier is 3-7. On paper, this looks like another mismatch but of course we know anything can happen in March.
Butler lags Xavier in nearly every statistical category, so there’s really only one way I can look in this one. Why was the last game so close? Butler had an anomaly of a game where they outrebounded Xavier, they just could not take advantage of any second chances. Xavier themselves were ice cold from downtown, missing their first nine attempts and finishing the game an abysmal one for ten. For some context, Butler ranks 334th in the nation in rebounding and Xavier ranks 61st. That’s why I refer to that game as an anomaly. For this game, I expect Xavier to come out and dominate from start to finish. I am laying the points with Xavier in MSG this Wednesday.
Joey G.
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