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Men's Basketball Set To Host Crosstown Rival Cincinnati On Friday
12.03.25 | Men's Basketball
Xavier is looking for its sixth win in seven meetings.
CINCINNATI --- The Xavier University Musketeers, 6-3 overall and 0-0 in the BIG EAST Conference, host the University of Cincinnati Bearcats, 6-2 overall and 0-0 in the Big 12 Conference, on Friday night at 7:30 p.m. at Cintas Center in the annual Skyline Chili Crosstown Shootout. Xavier enters the game with a three-game winning streak.
Xavier and Cincinnati are meeting for the 93rd time. The Bearcats won last year's game at Cincinnati, although the Musketeers have won five of the last six meetings. XU has won 10-straight games vs. UC at Cintas Center.
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• Xavier and Cincinnati are meeting for the 93rd time. UC leads 52-40 but XU has won five of the last six vs. UC, nine of the last 12 meetings and 13 of the last 18.
• Xavier, 6-3, is coming off its third-straight win, a 96-74 victory over Saint Francis. Senior Roddie Anderson III led XU with 28 points, one shy of his career high.
• Xavier has hit at least 10 3-point field goals in five-straight games. The longest such streak on record at XU is six-straight games to end the 1998-99 season.
• Xavier is playing the middle game of a season-high five-game homestand.
• Xavier has four players averaging in double figures in scoring: graduate student Tre Carroll (15.9 ppg.), senior Roddie Anderson III (13.9 ppg.), sophomore Jovan Milićević (12.6 ppg.) and sophomore All Wright (11.3 ppg.).
• Xavier sophomore Jovan Milićević is third on the team in scoring (19th in the BIG EAST at 12.6 ppg.) and is fourth in the BIG EAST in 3-point field goals per game (2.56) and third in 3-point percentage (.442).
• Xavier graduate student Tre Carroll, who leads XU in scoring at 15.9 ppg. (ninth in the BIG EAST), is the only player who has scored in double figures in every game.
• Xavier sophomore All Wright is second on the team and seventh in the BIG EAST in 3-point field goals per game (2.22) and is shooting .500 from 3-point range.
• Xavier senior Filip Borovićanin, who has averaged 10.3 rpg. over the last four games, is fourth in the BIG EAST in rebounding at 7.6 rpg.
• Xavier senior Roddie Anderson III, who is second on the team in scoring at 13.9 ppg., ranks 13th in the BIG EAST Conference.
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