Xavier University Athletics
Monday, November 3
Cincinnati, Ohio
7:15 p.m.
Xavier University
vs
Marist
Men's Basketball Hosts Marist In Monday Night Regular Season Opener
10.31.25 | Men's Basketball
The game is the first for the Musketeers under head coach Richard Pitino.
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.
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.
• 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.
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.
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• 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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