No. 15 Xavier Improves to 4-0 With a 96-60 Win Over Hampton

Monday, November 20

Cincinnati, Ohio

8:30 p.m.

Xavier University

4-0

Hampton

1-4

Hampton

Xavier

No. 15 Xavier Improves to 4-0 With a 96-60 Win Over Hampton

11.20.17 | Men's Basketball

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Trevon Bluiett scores 21 points to lead the Musketeers

By: Isabel Hamilton, Xavier Athletic Communications

CINCINNATI –No. 15 Xavier used a strong second-half and a 21-point effort by Trevon Bluiett to beat Hampton, 96-60, and improve to 4-0 for the season. Bluiett has been the Musketeers leading scorer in three of their four games.

FIRST HALF

The Musketeers got off to a slow start, trailing 10-8 at the 16-minute mark, but back-to-back three pointers by Trevon Bluiett and Kaiser Gates started a Xavier 8-0 run to make the score 16-10.
Bluiett led Xavier with 10 points as he scored seven of Xavier's first 11 points.
Freshmen Naji Marshall and Paul Scruggs added a spark for the Musketeers off the bench, with Marshall scoring eight points on 4-for-4 shooting and Scruggs adding six points.
The Musketeers out-rebounded the Pirates, 24-14, with J.P. Macura and Sean O'Mara grabbing four rebounds each.
The Musketeers' largest lead of the half came at the five-minute mark where they led by 12. Xavier maintained its 12-point lead by ending the half ahead, 43-31.

SECOND HALF

Xavier pulled away in the second half by starting the half on a 14-6 run to take its first 20-point lead of the game, 57-37. The Musketeers largest lead of the game was 38 points with just under a minute left in regulation.
After being held scoreless in the first half, Quentin Goodin scored 10 points off of 4-for-7 shooting.
Kerem Kanter scored 11 of his 15 points in the second half, while grabbing four rebounds.
The Musketeers got Hampton in foul trouble early in the half, with two players recording five fouls and three players recording four fouls.
Kaiser Gates led Xavier with nine rebounds, while Naji Marshall followed with seven grabs as Xavier out-rebounded Hampton, 46-32, for the game.

NOTABLES

Trevon Bluiett has scored over 20 points in every game this season, making this the second time in his career that he has had four straight 20+ point games.
Xavier outscored Hampton, 46-19, in the paint and recorded five blocks, with Sean O'Mara leading the team with two.
The Musketeers dished out 18 assists, led by five assists from Quentin Goodin.
Xavier held Hampton to 13.6 percent from the 3-point line and 32.4 percent from the field.

UP NEXT

Xavier travels to Las Vegas for the Continental Tire Las Vegas Invitational where they will play George Washington on Thursday, Nov. 23 at 5 p.m. The game will be broadcasted on FS1.

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