By Chris Garvin
GAME NOTES
https://goxavier.com/documents/2023/12/7/2023-24_NOTES_GAME_10_VS._CINCINNATI.pdf
Musketeers have won four-straight in the series.
CINCINNATI — The Xavier University Musketeers, 4-5, and the University of Cincinnati Bearcats, 7-0, will meet for the 91st time on Saturday. Xavier will be looking for its fifth-straight win vs. its crosstown rivals. XU is 9-1 vs. UC at Cintas Center, including nine straight victories.
Xavier is coming off a Tuesday loss to Delaware despite a 34-point effort from graduate student Quincy Olivari. That marked the most points scored by a Musketeer since Trevon Blueitt scored 40 points at Cincinnati in the 2016-17 season.
XAVIER UNIVERSITY MUSKETEERS (4-5, 0-0 BIG EAST)
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI BEARCATS (7-0, 0-0 BIG 12)
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2023 AT 6:30 P.M. ET
AT CINTAS CENTER IN CINCINNATI, OHIO
Television: FS1 with play-by-play from Matt Schumacker and analysis from Nick Bahe.
Xavier Radio: 55KRC with play-by-play from Xavier 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 on the Varsity Network and on SXM.
Live Stats: Media stats at Statbroadcast.com and fan stats at GoXavier.com.
• Xavier and Cincinnati are meeting for the 91st time. UC leads 51-39 but XU has won four straight vs. UC, eight of the last 10 meetings and 12 of the last 16. Xavier is 9-1 vs. Cincinnati at Cintas Center, including nine straight victories.
• Xavier sophomore Desmond Claude is tied for the team lead in scoring at 16.1 ppg. (tied for ninth in the BIG EAST). Claude, the only Musketeer who has scored in double figures in every game, is the only returnee from last season that has played a game. He played nine minutes in the win at UC last season.
• Xavier graduate student Quincy Olivari has scored in double figures eight times, including six straight games. Olivari, who is tied for the team scoring lead at 16.1 ppg., had 34 points vs. Delaware (one shy of his collegiate career high he set at Rice). That marks the most points by a Musketeer since Trevon Blueitt scored 40 at UC (1-26-17).
• Xavier’s Quincy Olivari leads the team and is tied for fourth in the BIG EAST in 3-point field goals at 2.67 per game, including five on Tuesday vs. Delaware.
• Xavier senior Dayvion McKnight leads the BIG EAST Conference in assist-to-turnover ratio at 3.29. He is fifth in the BIG EAST in assists at 5.11 per game.
• Xavier head coach Sean Miller holds a 151-62 (.709) mark in his seventh season leading Xavier, which is good for third place on Xavier’s all-time wins list. Miller is 4-2 vs. UC.
• Xavier has 10 newcomers on the 2023-24 roster, including six freshmen and four transfers. All 10 newcomers have played this season.
• Xavier has three international players on its 2023-24 roster, including freshmen Lazar Djokovic (Serbia) and Saša Ciani (Slovenia) and senior Gytis Nemeikša (Lithuania).
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