Men's Basketball Hosts Marist In Monday Night Regular Season Opener

Monday, November 3

Cincinnati, Ohio

7:15 p.m.

Xavier University

Marist

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Men's Basketball Hosts Marist In Monday Night Regular Season Opener

10.31.25 | Men's Basketball

GAME NOTES VS. MARIST

The game is the first for the Musketeers under head coach Richard Pitino.

By: Tom Eiser, Xavier Athletic Communications

CINCINNATI --- The Xavier University Musketeers host the Marist University Red Foxes on Monday, Nov. 4, in the regular season opener for both teams and the debut of Xavier first-year head coach Richard Pitino. Xavier is shooting for its 36th-straight win in a regular season opener.

Xavier returns no scholarship letterwinners for the first time in school history. Senior Roddie Anderson III practiced with last season's NCAA Tournament team but was a redshirt.

broadcast and live stats information

TV/Stream: ESPN+ with John Sadak and former Musketeer captain Steve Wolf ('83).
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). The game is also available the Xavier Gameday App., the Varsity Network and the SiriusXM App.
Live Stats: Media stats at Statbroadcast.com and fan stats at GoXavier.com.

x factors

• Xavier has won 35 straight regular season openers (34 at home, including the last 26). 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 25 season openers at Cintas Center, including last season's 78-69 win over Texas Southern on Nov. 4.
• Xavier's Richard Pitino is making his debut as the Musketeer head coach. Pitino, who was the head coach at New Mexico for the past four seasons, led the Lobos to a 27-8 overall record and the second round of the 2025 NCAA Tournament with a first-round win over Marquette. Pitino has 13 seasons of experience as a head coach, including eight years at Minnesota.
• Xavier has two players on its roster that are very familiar with head coach Richard Pitino. Senior Filip Borovićanin and sophomore Jovan Milićević played under Pitino last season. A couple other players have at least two games of experience playing against Pitino's New Mexico squads: sophomore Pape N'Diaye (transfer from UNLV) and senior Roddie Anderson III (transfer from Boise State).
• Xavier men's basketball team compiled a 338-64 (.841) record for its first 25
seasons in its on-campus home, the 10,224-seat Cintas Center.
• Xavier has welcomed 3,915,763 men's basketball fans to Cintas Center and is set to pass the four million mark sometime this season.
• Xavier played its first men's basketball game at Cintas Center on Nov. 18, 2000, a 68-54 win by late head coach Skip Prosser's squad vs. Miami (Ohio). XU celebrates the 25-year anniversary of that game on Nov. 18 vs. Old Dominion.

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