No. 9/8 Xavier Closes Homestand Against High-Scoring Marshall On Tuesday Night

Tuesday, December 19

Cincinnati, Ohio

6:30 p.m.

Xavier University

Marshall

No. 9/8 Xavier Closes Homestand Against High-Scoring Marshall On Tuesday Night

12.18.17 | Men's Basketball

Xavier Game Notes vs. Marshall_Game 12

Musketeers have won five straight games.

By: Tom Eiser, Xavier Athletic Communications

Xavier, 10-1, is No. 9 in the AP Poll and No. 8 in the USA Today Coaches Poll. The Musketeers, winners of five straight games, host Marshall on Tuesday night at 6:30 p.m. Marshall, 8-3 and boasting a four-game winning streak, is 10th in the nation in scoring at 90.2 ppg.

THE MATCHUP

No. 9/8 Xavier University Musketeers (10-1, 0-0 BIG EAST)
Marshall University Thundering Herd (8-3, 0-0 C-USA)
Tuesday, December 19, 2017 at 6:30 p.m. ET
Cintas Center (10,224) in Cincinnati, Ohio

TV, RADIO AND LIVE STATS

Television: FS1 with play-by-play from Rich Waltz and analysis from Len Elmore.
Radio: 55KRC-AM, including via iHeart Radio, 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: Fan stats at GoXavier.com.

X-FACTORS

• Xavier, 10-1, is No. 9 in the AP Poll and No. 8 in the USA Today Coaches Poll. This is the third straight season that Xavier has been ranked in the top 10 in both polls.
• Xavier, winner of five straight games overall, has won 38 straight non-conference home games with its last loss coming in the 2012-13 season.
• Xavier leads the BIG EAST and is third nationally in field goal percentage at .528. XU is second in the BIG EAST in free-throw shooting at 79.0 percent (11th in nation).
• Xavier senior guard Trevon Bluiett is third in the BIG EAST in scoring at 21.4 ppg. He is seventh on XU's all-time scoring list (13 points shy of sixth) with 1,820 points.
• Xavier senior guard J.P. Macura, who is second on the team in scoring at 11.9 ppg., is 30th on XU's all-time scoring list with 1,185 points.
• Xavier freshman forward Naji Marshall scored a career-high 15 points on 5-of-6 shooting in the win over ETSU on Saturday.
• Xavier sophomore guard Quentin Goodin leads the BIG EAST in assists at 6.5 apg., including 7.4 apg. during Xavier's current five-game winning streak. Goodin is second in the BIG EAST in assist/turnover ratio at 2.73.
• Xavier graduate transfer forward Kerem Kanter has averaged 11.7 ppg. over the last six games.
• Xavier sophomore forward Tyrique Jones has five double-figure scoring games this season. That is more than the total (four) for his entire freshman season.
• Xavier, a 2017 NCAA Elite Eight team, has made it to at least the Sweet 16 six times in the last 10 years, one of only nine schools that can say that. XU is one of only eight schools have been to at least 11 of the last 12 NCAA tournaments.
• Xavier has graduated 105 straight men's basketball seniors dating back to the 1985-86 school year.

PRESSER: KANTER AND O'MARA