Men's Basketball Takes On No. 3 UConn On Tuesday Night In Hartford

CINCINNATI --- The Xavier University Musketeers, 12-10 overall and 4-7 in the BIG EAST Conference, visit the No. 3 University of Connecticut Huskies, 21-1 overall and 11-0 in the BIG EAST, on Tuesday night at 7 p.m. Xavier snapped a three-game losing streak with a 68-66 win over DePaul on Saturday. UConn enters Tuesday's game with a 17-game winning streak.

Xavier graduate student Tre Carroll, who was named on the weekly BIG EAST Conference Honor Roll for the third-straight week, enters the UConn game 24 points shy of 1,000 for his collegiate career.

BROADCAST AND LIVE STATS INFORMATION

TV/Stream: Peacock and NBC Sports Network with play-by-play from John Fanta and analysis from Donny Marshall.
Xavier Radio: 700 WLW with play-by-play from XU 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 available on the Xavier Musketeers App., Varsity Network and the Sirius XM App.
Live Stats: Media stats at Statbroadcast.com and fan stats at GoXavier.com.

X FACTORS

• Xavier, 12-10 overall and 4-7 in the BIG EAST Conference, snapped a three-game losing streak with a 68-66 win over DePaul on Saturday. Graduate student Tre Carroll led XU with 21 points. Senior Filip Borovićanin scored 16, including the buzzer-beating game winner.
• Xavier erased an 18-point second-half deficit in the DePaul win, the biggest comeback for XU in a league game since joining the BIG EAST in 2013-14.
• Xavier has five players averaging in double figures in scoring. Xavier is 10-3 when it has four or more players score in double figures.
• Xavier graduate student Tre Carroll, who is now at 976 points for his collegiate career, has averaged 26.4 ppg. and shot 58.4 percent from the field over the last five games.
• Xavier's Tre Carroll leads the BIG EAST in scoring at 18.3 ppg. and is second in field goal percentage at 50.8 percent. He is second on the team and tied for 11th in the league in rebounding (5.6 rpg.) and first on the team and sixth in blocks (1.3 bpg.).
• Xavier leads the BIG EAST and is eighth in the nation in assist-to-turnover ratio at 1.83. XU leads the BIG EAST in assists and is 12th in the nation at 18.5 apg.
• Xavier senior Filip Borovićanin leads the team in rebounding (fourth in the BIG EAST at 8.0 rpg.), assists (fifh at 4.6 apg.), steals (ninth at 1.5 spg.) and assist-to-turnover ratio (third in the BIG EAST at 2.81).
• Xavier senior Malik Messina-Moore is second on the team in scoring for BIG EAST games at 14.8 ppg., which ranks tied for 11th in the league. Messina-Moore has raised his season average to 10.8 ppg. He is fourth in the BIG EAST in assist-to-turnover ratio at 2.66.
• Xavier sophomore Jovan Milićević is second on the team in scoring at 11.6 ppg. and is tied for fifth in the BIG EAST in 3-point field goals per game (2.0). He has averaged 15.2 ppg. over the last six games.

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