The Friars face the Xavier Musketeers Wednesday night at the AMP. This is not a game that I circled at the beginning of the ...

Creighton, Butler and UConn (twice) are the only Big East teams in that stretch to leave Milwaukee with victories. Xavier will need to lock in from the jump, when the crowd is at its loudest ...

Now without two key players for the season, Providence will try to shake off a three-game Big East losing streak when Xavier pays a visit to Rhode Island's capital city on Wednesday night.

After five losses by six points or less since Dec. 5, Xavier earns a hard-fought Quadrant 2 victory and pulls within one game of .500 (3-4) in Big East play before a tough stretch to end January.

Xavier dropped to 1-9 in Quadrant 1 contests this season after a loss to Villanova Sunday at Wells Fargo Center.