College basketball centers arounds the notion that on any given night, any team could lose, regardless of rank or record. For most seasons this belief might fall by the wayside, but the 2011-12 season is reminding everyone of the unpredictability of the sport. This year’s season has seen good teams […]

The Xavier Musketeers will return to action today when they take on the Saint Louis Billikens. After traveling to Dayton on Saturday, the Musketeers will play the Billikens at Cintas Center before playing their next three games on the road. Xavier fell to the Dayton Flyers 87-72 on Saturday in […]

Herman Cain received 1 percent of the vote this Saturday in the South Carolina Republican Primary, and Newt Gingrich won with 40 percent. This is 99.9 percent hilarious and 100 percent ridiculous. Those 1 percent of voters did not actually vote for Herman Cain, who is no longer even running. […]

It is said that every basketball team has a sixth-man. A person or persons that are as much a part of the team as the five players on the court. For Xavier, this sixth-man is undoubtedly its student section. Students at Xavier take basketball very seriously and there are a […]

At the Doug Raymond Invite at Kent State University this weekend, the Musketeers broke several school and  personal records and had an overall strong performance. “It was good to get back on the track after the long layoff. This was a good opportunity to get used to competing again and […]

The Xavier women’s basketball team non-conference struggles have continued to plague them early in the Atlantic 10 season. The Musketeers dropped two more road games this week, which lowers their record to 3-13 and 0-3 in A-10 play. Xavier traveled to Pittsburgh, Penn. on Jan. 11 to face Duquesne University, […]

The Xavier Newswire sat down with forward Andre Walker, a graduate transfer from Vanderbilt. Xavier Newswire: How did you get started playing basketball? Andre Walker: My dad put a ball in my hand when I was two and took me to the YMCA, just playing against other little kids trying […]

At the Zippy Invitational at the University of Akron the first weekend of December, the Xavier men’s swimming team placed third, and the women’s finished eighth. Freshman Kiernan McGeehan finished second in the men’s 1650 freestyle with a time of 16:06.15. Will Oswald came in fourth in the same event […]

The Xavier women’s basketball team’s December struggles continued this past week as they dropped two more games. The women fell 60-54 to Eastern Illinois University on Jan. 4 and then lost to the University of Charlotte 58-54 on Saturday. The losses drop the Musketeers’ record to 3-11 on the season […]

The Xavier women’s basketball entered the toughest part of their schedule last week when they played two top ten teams in two games. The Musketeers traveled to Louisiville to face the University of Louisville Cardinals on November 20. Xavier struggled out of the gate and fell to the No. 9 […]