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 […]
A tough road to travel for Xavier
The Xavier men’s basketball program’s mantra has always been to schedule tough non-conference opponents while battling through the always challenging Atlantic 10 Conference schedule. That philosophy has not changed for the 2011-12 season, seeing as Xavier sports one of the more challenging schedules in college basketball. “We want to challenge […]
Occupy the toilet seat
To those who liken the Occupy movement to the Tea Party, I ask one question: Are you the same people who installed the automaticflush toilets around campus, the toilets that flush no fewer than four times per sitting? You must be, because there is no way more than one group […]