For the 68th straight year and the 79th time in history, the men’s basketball teams of Xavier University and University of Cincinnati will meet in what has become known nationally as the Crosstown Shootout. The match was first played in 1927, celebrating the opening of Schmidt Fieldhouse and the teams […]
Month: October 2011
A long road to Xavier for Amber Gray
Redshirt Junior Amber Gray started playing basketball at the age of six and always dreamed of playing for the University of Tennessee. After a year playing for the Lady Volunteers, her life was interrupted in a way she could not possibly have imagined. Gray, a native of West Chester, Ohio, […]
Newcomers have big shoes to fill
New Xavier women’s basketball coach Amy Waugh faces a challenge in 2012. The Muskies lost four out of five starters from last year’s 29-win team. To help aid the transition, Waugh has brought in two new assistant coaches, a transfer from Marquette, and a freshman who she expects to contribute […]
Waugh enters first season for Xavier
Head coach Amy Waugh knows what it takes to build an elite women’s basketball program. The Xavier women’s basketball program has been to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament twice (in 2001 and 2010) in its history. Waugh was part of both teams. The former Musketeer point guard led […]
Sights set high for women’s basketball
The Xavier women’s basketball team might have a new coach at the helm this season, but it still is determined to win their fourth straight Atlantic 10 regular season title and appear in its sixth consecutive NCAA Tournament. Waugh, who inherits an extremely young team, has her sights set on […]
Travis Taylor fills gap in XU roster
Xavier head coach Chris Mack knew all along that Travis Taylor would be a great addition and key player for the Musketeers in the 2011-12 season. Taylor, a 6-foot-7, 214 pound junior forward averaged 17.8 points per game and 7.6 rebounds per game as a sophomore at Monmouth two years […]
NBA dreams not Tu unrealistic
For most of his life, Terrell “Tu-Tu” Holloway has been fighting an uphill battle against a slew of doubts and low expectations. From the assumption that a Long Island boy could not make it big, to the skepticism that a sixfoot nothing point guard could make it in the big […]
A year of high hopes for Xavier basketball
Each year, every school says, “This is it. This is our year,” but for Xavier, this year may just be that year. The Musketeers are considered to be the midmajor school to watch meaning a Sweet Sixteen appearance, maybe even an Elite Eight. This year, it could be the long […]
Xavier women have a schedule full of vengeance
This year the Lady Musketeers will face a difficult schedule, facing Stanford and Cincinnati at home, and Louisville at the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Ky. In December they will face Syracuse, Ohio and Oklahoma in Las Vegas, and will continue Atlantic 10 play shortly after their return. After losing […]
Coach Profile: Chris Mack
The Xavier Newswire sat down with head coach Chris Mack to find out a little more about the Xavier coach. Xavier Newswire: What is your proudest moment as a coach? Coach Mack: I don’t know if it’s a single moment in time, but obviously when we won the Atlantic 10 […]