Men's Basketball Set To Resume Game Action On Saturday At Butler

Saturday, January 30

Indianapolis, Ind.

5:30 p.m.

Xavier University

Butler

Men's Basketball Set To Resume Game Action On Saturday At Butler

01.27.21 | Men's Basketball

Xavier at Butler Notes package

This will be XU's first game since Jan. 10.

By: Tom Eiser, Xavier Athletic Communications

CINCINNATI --- The Xavier Musketeers, 10-2 overall and 3-2 in the BIG EAST Conference, open a three-game road swing in Indianapolis vs. Butler on Saturday night. This will be Xavier's first game since Jan. 10 when it defeated Providence 74-73 in a thriller at Cintas Center.

Senior guard Paul Scruggs, an Indianapolis native, leads the BIG EAST and is 15th in the nation in assists at 6.3 apg. Scruggs is second on the team in scoring at 13.8 ppg., which ranks 13^th in the BIG EAST. Third-year Xavier head coach Travis Steele is a Butler graduate as is special assistant to the head coach Matthew Graves.

THE MATCHUP

XAVIER UNIVERSITY MUSKETEERS (10-2, 3-2 BIG EAST)
BUTLER UNIVERSITY BULLDOGS (5-8, 4-6 BIG EAST)
SATURDAY, JAN. 30, 2021 AT 5:30 P.M. ET
HINKLE FIELDHOUSE IN INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

TV, RADIO & LIVE STATS

Television: FS1 with play-by-play from Alex Faust and analysis from Casey Jacobsen.
Radio: 700 WLW-AM with play-by-play from XU Hall of Famer and former XU standout Joe Sunderman ('79) and analysis from XU Hall of Famer and all-time leading scorer Byron Larkin ('88). Broadcast also available on Sirius XM channel 386 and internet channel 976.
Live Stats: Media stats at Statbroadcast.com and fan stats at GoXavier.com.

X FACTORS

• Xavier is opening a three-game road swing.
• Xavier, which has not played since Jan. 10, had its last four games postponed.
• Xavier leads the BIG EAST in assists (sixth in the nation at 19.1 apg.). XU is second in the BIG EAST (13th in the nation) in assist-to-turnover ratio at 1.56 and second in field goal percentage (39th in the nation at .476).
• Xavier senior Paul Scruggs leads the BIG EAST and is 15th in the nation in assists at 6.3 apg. He is second on the team (13th in BIG EAST) in scoring (13.8 ppg.) and is third in the BIG EAST (42nd in the nation) in assist-to-turnover ratio at 2.50.
• Xavier sophomore Zach Freemantle leads the team in scoring at 15.8 ppg. (eighth in the BIG EAST) and field goal percentage (sixth in the BIG EAST at .531). He is second on the team and fifth in the BIG EAST in rebounding at 7.9 rpg.
• Xavier freshman Dwon Odom is second on the team and seventh in the BIG EAST in assists at 4.2 apg. and first on the team, second in the BIG EAST and 20th in the
nation in assist-to-turnover ratio at 3.23.
• Xavier freshman Colby Jones, who has started XU's last five games, was named BIG EAST Freshman of the Week on Jan. 11. He scored a career-high and team-high 16 points in the St. John's win and hit the game-winning 3-pointer vs. Providence.
• Xavier senior Jason Carter, who leads the team and is fourth in the BIG EAST in rebounding at 8.0 rpg., grabbed a Xavier career-high 16 rebounds to go with 11 points in the win over St. John's on Jan. 6.
• Xavier senior Nate Johnson, who leads the BIG EAST and is third in the nation in 3-point percentage (.508), is fourth in the BIG EAST in 3-point field goals at 2.7 per game. Johnson hit 4-6 3-pointers vs. Providence on Jan. 10.

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