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LU65
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Quick thoughts………

Yeah, we kept it to a single-digits and proved KenPom and everyone else wrong. I’m anxious to see the new national rankings. Ken Pomeroy has already weighted-in, dropping Xavier from 11 to 16 and bumping Lehigh up to 125 from 141.

Stat sheet says it all. Down by 12 early in the game and had a chance to tie at the final buzzer. Don’t’ tell anyone but we actually out-scored Xavier 79-72 over the final 36 + minutes of the game.

Wow, Reed wasn’t kidding when he spoke so highly of Holba, Cohen and Andree in his 11/7 Season Preview. The three combined for 23 on 9 for 12 shooting and logged a combined 53 minutes of playing time. In fact, Holba hasn’t miss yet. Who cares about it being a nationally televised event and the 10,250 enemy fans that packed the Cintas Center. Not bad, when you realize we still haven’t seen Sedore, Leib, and, of course, “walk-on” Wolf – all new to the Lehigh family.

I had to love Sean O’Mara’s (Xavier’s Center) post game comment re: TK. “Man, he’s good.” The NBA scouts in the audience probably agreed.

Just another example of why it’s hard for a power conference team such as Xavier to schedule a far lesser team – on paper anyway. Can you imagine if we had pulled this one out?! It would have dearly cost ($ and otherwise) the vaunted Musketeers. Villanova, Syracuse and now Xavier over the past three years. Who risks getting us, albeit without TK, next year? Thanks again Coach and Staff for scheduling this game.