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Men's Basketball Hosts Lehigh Friday For Opening Night At Cintas Center
11.10.16 | Men's Basketball
XU looking to extend streak of season-opening victories.
XU is opening the regular season at Cintas Center for the 17th straight season.
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THE MATCHUP |
No. 7/8 Xavier University Musketeers (0-0, 0-0 BIG EAST Conference)
vs. Lehigh Mountain Hawks (0-0, 0-0 Patriot League)
OPENING NIGHT --- REGULAR SEASON OPENER
Friday, November 11, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. ET
at Cintas Center (10,250) at Xavier University
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TV, RADIO AND LIVE STATS |
Television: FOX College Sports Network with Alex Faust and Dickey Simpkins.
Radio: 55KRC-AM with play-by-play from Xavier Hall of Famer and former Musketeer standout Joe Sunderman ('79). Analysis will be provided by Xavier Hall of Famer and XU all-time leading scorer Byron Larkin ('88).
Live Stats: GoXavier.com
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X-FACTORS |
• Xavier has won 26 straight regular season openers with its last loss coming in the 1989-90 season.
• Xavier is opening the regular season at Cintas Center for the 17th straight season.
• Xavier has won all 16 of its season openers at Cintas Center, including a win over Miami (Ohio) last season.
• Xavier last played Lehigh in the 2012 NCAA Tournament when C.J. McCollum (Portland Trailblazers) was a Lehigh junior.
• Xavier won its one and only public exhibition, defeating Ferris State last Saturday 80-56 at Cintas Center.
• Xavier is ranked 7th in the preseason Associated Press Poll and 8th in the preseason USA Today Coaches Poll, the highest preseason rankings ever in those polls.
• Xavier, 28-6 overall last season, made its 10th NCAA Tournament appearance in the last 11 years. XU is one of only nine schools that can say that.
• Xavier jr. Trevon Bluiett and so. Edmond Sumner were both named to the Naismith Award and Lute Olson Award preseason watch lists.
• Xavier jr. Trevon Bluiett, a 2015-16 USA TODAY Sports 3rd Team All-American and All-BIG EAST 1st Team, is 2016-17 preseason 1st Team All-BIG EAST.
• Xavier so. Edmond Sumner, a 2015-16 BIG EAST All-Freshman Team selection and a Kyle Macy Freshman All-American, is 2016-17 preseason 1st Team All-BIG EAST.
• Xavier jr. J.P. Macura, 2015-16 BIG EAST Conference Sixth Man Award winner, was listed by CBS as one of the nation's top 20 players headed to a breakout season.
• Xavier has graduated 100 straight men's basketball seniors dating back to the 1985-86 school year.
