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Men's Basketball Opens The Season With Robert Morris On Monday Night
11.04.23 | Men's Basketball
Musketeers have won 33 straight regular season openers.
CINCINNATI --- The Xavier University Musketeers host the Robert Morris University Colonials for Opening Night on Monday at 8 p.m. at Cintas Center. Xavier has won 33 straight regular season openers, including the last 23 at Cintas Center.
Xavier has 10 newcomers on the 2023-24 roster, including six freshmen and four transfers. Xavier has only two returning scholarship letterwinners on the active roster. Sophomore Desmond Claude, a member of the 2022-23 BIG EAST All-Freshman Team, is XU's top returnee. XU finished 27-10 last season and made it to the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16.
Head coach Sean Miller, 147-57 heading into his seventh season as the Xavier head coach, is just one win shy of tying the late Skip Prosser for third place on Xavier's all-time wins list. Prosser won 148 games in seven years from 1994-01.
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THE MATCHUP |
XAVIER UNIVERSITY MUSKETEERS (0-0, 0-0 BIG EAST)
ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY COLONIALS (0-0, 0-0 HORIZON)
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2023 AT 8:00 P.M. ET
AT CINTAS CENTER IN CINCINNATI, OHIO
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TV, RADIO & LIVE STATS |
Television: FS1 "BIG EAST Tipoff" whip around coverage with play by-play from Connor Onion and analysis from LaVall Jordan. The complete coverage is available on the FOX Sports app.
Xavier Radio: 55KRC with play-by-play from Xavier Hall of Famer Joe Sunderman ('79) and analysis from XU all-time leading scorer and Hall of Famer Byron Larkin ('88). XU broadcast is also on the Varsity Network and on the SXM App.
Live Stats: Media stats at Statbroadcast.com and fan stats at GoXavier.com.
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X FACTORS |
• Xavier did not play any public exhibitions this season.
• Xavier has won 33 straight regular season openers (32 at home, including the last 24). Xavier's last loss in a regular season opener came in the 1989-90 season to Southern Utah State at Cincinnati Gardens (97-90 on Dec. 2, 1989).
• Xavier has won all 23 season openers at Cintas Center, including last season's 96-73 win over Morgan State on Nov. 7.
• Xavier is scheduled to play 13 regular season games against teams in the top 30 of the preseason Associated Press Poll, including eight games against teams in the top eight and 11 games vs. top 25 teams.
• Xavier returns home on Friday to host Jacksonville.
• Xavier has 10 newcomers on the 2023-24 roster, including six freshmen and four transfers. Xavier has only two returning scholarship letterwinners on the active roster: Sophomore Desmond Claude, a member of the 2022-23 BIG EAST All-Freshman Team, and fellow sophomore Kam Craft, who was limited to 15 games last season due to injury. Two other expected returnees, Zach Freemantle and Jerome Hunter, are not on the
active roster.
• Xavier head coach Sean Miller returns for his seventh season at the helm. Miller holds a 147-57 (.721) mark in six seasons leading Xavier. His 147 wins at XU rank him fourth on Xavier's all-time wins list and just one win shy of third place. The late Skip Prosser is third (148 wins in seven years from 1994-01).
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