Men's Basketball Hosts Butler On Sunday At Noon On CBS Sports Network

Sunday, January 13

Cincinnati, Ohio

12 p.m.

Xavier University

Butler

Men's Basketball Hosts Butler On Sunday At Noon On CBS Sports Network

01.10.19 | Men's Basketball

Xavier Game Notes vs. Butler

Musketeers are looking for a second straight BIG EAST win.

By: Tom Eiser, Xavier Athletic Communications

CINCINNATI --- The Xavier University Musketeers, 10-7 overall and 2-2 in the BIG EAST Conference, host the Butler University Bulldogs, 10-6 overall and 1-2 in the BIG EAST Conference, on Sunday at noon at Cintas Center.

Xavier leads the series with Butler 40-20, including a sweep of both games last season. Xavier has won three straight and 19 of the last 25 meetings, including 12 of the last 16. XU holds a 9-3 advantage since the two teams became BIG EAST rivals.

Xavier and Butler are long-time rivals. XU and BU are competing as members of the BIG EAST Conference for the sixth straight year. Xavier and Butler competed in the Atlantic 10 Conference in the 2012-13 season and they were long-time rivals in the former Midwestern Collegiate Conference (now Horizon League) for 16 seasons before Xavier began play in the Atlantic 10 Conference in the 1995-96 season.

Xavier is coming off an 81-75 come-from-behind win over Georgetown on Wednesday at Cintas Center. Xavier, playing without injured starting point guard Quentin Goodin, fell behind by 17 points, 39-22, with under four minutes left in the first half but battled back for the win. Xavier placed four players in double figures in scoring, including double-double performances from junior Tyrique Jones and graduate transfer Zach Hankins. Jones finished with a career-high tying 19 points with 10 rebounds, while Hankins contributed a Xavier career-high 23 points on 10-of-14 shooting to go with 10 rebounds and three blocks. The Musketeers turned the ball over only four times, a total that is just one more than the school record that was tied earlier this season vs. Miami (Ohio).

THE MATCHUP

Xavier University Musketeers (10-7, 2-2 BIG EAST)
Butler University Bulldogs (10-6, 1-2 BIG EAST)
Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019 at Noon ET
Cintas Center (10,224) in Cincinnati

TV, RADIO AND LIVE STATS

Television: CBS Sports Network with play-by-play from Dan Hoard and analysis from Steve Lappas.
Xavier Radio: 700 WLW-AM, including via iHeart Radio, TuneIn and via Sirius (119), XM (201) and Internet (964) with play-by-play from XU 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: Media stats at Statbroadcast.com. Fan stats at GoXavier.com.

X FACTORS

• Xavier, 10-7 overall and 2-2 in the BIG EAST Conference, is coming off a come-from-behind 81-75 victory over Georgetown on Wednesday.
• Xavier first-year head coach Travis Steele is a 2004 Butler graduate.
• Xavier plays three of its next four games at home.
• Xavier has five players averaging in double figures in scoring through 17 games.
• Xavier junior Quentin Goodin, who sat out the Georgetown game with a knee injury, leads XU in assists (second in the BIG EAST at 5.4 apg.) and steals (sixth in the BIG EAST at 1.6 spg.).
• Xavier sophomore Paul Scruggs, who posted his first career double-double with 17 points and 10 rebounds at Marquette on Jan. 6, has a team-high 13 double-figure scoring games. Scruggs is second on the team in scoring at 12.6 ppg.
• Xavier sophomore Naji Marshall leads the team in scoring (16th in the BIG EAST at 13.1 ppg.) and rebounding (third in the BIG EAST at 7.8 rpg.) and is second on the team in assists (13th in the BIG EAST at 3.2 apg.).
• Xavier junior Tyrique Jones, who had a career-high tying 19 points with 10 rebounds vs. Georgetown, is second on the team in rebounding (eighth in the BIG EAST at 7.1 rpg.) and tied for first in the BIG EAST in offensive rebounding (3.0 rpg.).
• Xavier graduate transfer Zach Hankins, who scored a Xavier career-high 23 points to go with 10 rebounds vs. Georgetown on Jan. 9, leads the BIG EAST Conference in field goal percentage (.712) and is third in the BIG EAST in blocks (1.4 bpg.).
• Xavier sophomore Elias Harden hit 2-of-3 3-pointers vs. Georgetown. Harden logged a career-high 24 minutes and scored seven points vs. the Hoyas.
• Xavier played in its fifth straight NCAA Tournament and its 12th in 13 years in 2018. XU earned a No. 1 seed in the 2018 NCAA Tournament.
• Xavier has graduated 109 straight men's basketball seniors dating back to the 1985-86 school year.

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