No. 5 Men's Basketball Looks For Fifth Straight Win at Seton Hall

Sunday, February 28

South Orange, N.J.

12:30 P.M.

Xavier University

Seton Hall University

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No. 5 Men's Basketball Looks For Fifth Straight Win at Seton Hall

02.26.16 | Men's Basketball

By: Tom Eiser, Xavier Athletic Communications

CINCINNATI – No. 5 Xavier (25-3, 13-3 BIG EAST) plays its final road game of the season at Seton Hall (20-7, 10-5 BIG EAST) on Sunday afternoon at 12:30 p.m.

Xavier is in second place in the BIG EAST, while Seton Hall is third.

THE MATCHUP

No. 5 Xavier University Musketeers (25-3, 13-3 BIG EAST)
Seton Hall University Pirates (20-7, 10-5 BIG EAST)
Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016 at 12:30 p.m. ET
at Prudential Center (10,862) in Newark, N.J.

TELEVISION AND RADIO

Television: FS1 with play-by-play from Justin Kutcher and analysis from
Ron Thompson.
Xavier Radio: 700 WLW-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).

X-FACTORS IN 140 CHARACTERS

• Xavier, 25-3 overall and 13-3 and in 2nd place in the BIG EAST, is coming off its 4th straight win, a 90-83 win over No. 1 Villanova on Wed.
• Xavier is No. 5 in both the AP and USA Today Coaches polls; this is XU's 11th straight week in the top 10 of the AP Poll.
• Xavier has moved up to No.3 in the NCAA Official RPI.
• Xavier has recorded three straight 20-win seasons and 10 in 11 years.
• Xavier leads the BIG EAST in scoring offense (80.4 ppg.), assists (16.3 apg.) and rebound margin (13th in the nation at +8.2 rpg.).
• Xavier has seven different players that have led the team in scoring at least twice.
• Xavier is 19-0 when at least four players score in double figures.
• Xavier head coach Chris Mack, named midseason National Coach of the Year by Sporting News, is ESPN.com's top candidate for National COY.
• Xavier soph. Trevon Bluiett is on the Midseason Watch List for the Naismith POY Award and a finalist for the Julius Erving Award.
• Xavier jr. Myles Davis leads XU in assists (4.0 apg.) and FT% (3rd in BE at .861), one of four XU players in the top 15 in BIG EAST FT%.
• Xavier fr. Edmond Sumner has averaged 15.7 ppg. & 3.8 apg. over the last 6 games.
• Xavier soph. J.P. Macura has averaged 12.7 ppg. over the last nine games.
• Xavier has made nine of the last 10 NCAA Tournaments, one of only 11 schools that have at least nine in that stretch.
• Xavier has been to five NCAA Sweet 16s in the last eight years, one of only nine schools with at least five in that stretch.
• Xavier has graduated the last 96 men's basketball players that have played as seniors, including all three seniors from last year's team.