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Xavier vs. Texas: The Thriller NCAA Tournament Showdown In Dayton

Marcus Foster a little bit short. Pope looks to push that ball in a hurry. Whoa, there you go. Mark extending to the cup. Good release there by Pope too. He was a fraction away early on in this game from a traveling violation. This is Shedrick. Backing down, Fremantle elevates with that little baby hook, and he left it short.

Yeah, with his size, he believes he can shoot over Fremantle or anybody else out there because he’s 6’11”. Good touch around the basket. Xavier, one of the best shooting teams in the country. Look at Conwell, a thing of beauty. Watch this here, Spiro, the way he brings it to the weekend and then right back to the power hand.

You kids just can’t get there up a little hesitation maneuvers, missed it. Playing him as well as you can hope, early stages transition three Conwell splash The coaching matchup with Sean Miller. Two men who locked up with their teams in the sweet 16 two years ago. Musketeers working quickly.

Dante Maddox. And when you know your number has been called, and you come off screens look at the shoot You’re generally gonna make something happen. Texas quickly answers Weaver. Regular season finale against Oklahoma. They put a different team with him in the lineup. pass deflected, stolen. Up the floor comes Johnson looking for his first points.

Let’s see if they’ll count the basket. They will. I think that should go. Contact and one for Johnson. But already early in this game, you can see the amount of focus he’s getting from Xavier. With a one-point lead with just over five minutes gone by in his first half in Dayton. Here comes Swain gliding to the Cubs.

Don’t let him go by you on the drive. He’s an Ohio kid, grew up in Columbus, sophomore, starting to put it all together. And that’s a stroke from deep. I think the score will indicate whether he has to do that or not. Going to touch down how prodigious the Xavier team has been offensively. Right now, still trying to put it together. Jerome Hunter on the misfire. Weaver taking on contact. Johnson looking for his seam.

Well played by Conwell, he’s gonna elevate, quarter three, and he sticks it! And six guys who had a thousand career points and showing why here under the bright lights. There’s a pull up on a three, and that’s good, big shot, Maddox, red hot at the start! Johnson probing, coughs it up, not high in the air, Shedrick, he’s gonna fire, and hits gets the broken play to work for them.

It’s a nice balanced offense past the johnson’s 20 points a night Come on mark trying to fend off swing really good defense better offense. What a play by mark Talluma calling for it sandwich little contact. No whistle Maddox holding steady free mental free mantle good shot to get that off, too Another little peek at where these teams sit in the baby jackets.

The Thrilling NCAA Tournament

That’s a good screen out front. He just lights it up. Easy the SEC tournament last week in Nashville. Johnson out of the corner. Johnson to the cup just dazzling three mantles straight away. Fight for the loose ball. Conwell to the cup. Lays it in. He would have been going after that offensive rebound a little stronger and more aggressively. so we move past the eight minute mark here comes koluma Boy, dropping just an exquisite pass.

Two on Yema. McKnight. Gonna get this offense going. This is Hunter. Finds the laces and connects. Able to cut the deficit to eight for Xavier. Mark around and in. Third season at the helm of the program. there’s two different states as an assistant at the school. What a pass underneath the jump fine by March.

Three perimeter players for Texas have the ability to put it on the deck. Here we go again the other way. we recall Look how fast he gets for the rack. It’s pretty unselfish team. They also get about 13 assists a game this Weaver, nobody’s got an assistant Foster trying to back his way down against the freshman Johnson.

Couple of fakes. Soft touch. Onyema out front to Pope. Still plenty of time to shoot. Pope elevates. A little bit short. Onyema in his first four playing game here in Dayton, Ohio between Xavier and Texas. What a first half. Dante Maddox is putting together for the Musketeers. Johnson. Knocked out of his hands on Gemma, and he gives it away. Hunter the steal.

He got a layup. Right side. Boy, the Swain bobble somehow gets it back. One at a time. 15 on the shot clock. Buster. A little bit of a stumble. Doubled. Outside to Hunter. That’s a three. I’d like to see them get Fremantle a couple of touches down low. There’s one right here. Nice look. Here he is. Swain on the dive.

Showing that upper body strength. Four of eight at the straight as a team tonight. They’re a very good free-throw shooting team. Boy, what a night. Tremont Mark is putting together for Texas. Nobody weapons off this floor. For Texas. Where Kemp Fremantle’s got going. Let’s it fly and cans it. Shadowed in the perimeter as he has been most of the night.

Xavier vs. Texas Update

Boy, give and go. Shedrick couldn’t get it to him. Nice head shoot by Fremantle. Good luck. Swain. Smart pass. And then on the transition after the bounce pass steal right here. Watch the way they come down the floor. Finally getting a chance to play the tournament basically in what was his last opportunity. And here he is. Look at Kaluma contorting his body through a tight space. And he’s got a contact at the other end as Weaver hit the deck. Strong.

There’s a three. Johnson sprinkling some of his stardust here in Dayton. He can move one step away from you to get a shot this two-man action here with maloma Johnson. Swing it to Mark. Mark, who’s been spectacular tonight, knocked out of his hands. freemantle Got some numbers. There’s the skip, this is Foster, he will shoot, and there he’s in! Great recognition of a three-on-two break just then.

Conwell on the deck, up with the floater, soft touch as we check in with John. To the best freshmen that you’ve coached in your career, guys like Stanley Johnson in Arizona, and he said, John, from a perimeter perspective, he might be better than all I’ve ever coached because of his ability to shoot.

But I’ll just let that hang Johnson on the launch get it So Fremantle seven points trying to steal a couple of minutes here Great strong track of Maddox. It looks like Shedrick is hurt And the fans recognize that too or some of the maybe Texas fans are thinking there was too much buckling Nice walk Faster 35 in the country this season. Just under two a game.

Here comes Johnson taking a little body bump and he had it knocked out of his hands. There you go. Fremantle slithers in. This is Foster. He got it. It’s a lucky bounce. Fremantle on the box. Watch the footwork. Spins. Goes left hand. I’ll tell you what, it feels like we’re in the Cintas Center right now in Cincinnati. Feels like we’re in the NCAA tournament.

Hunter! And we are tied here in Dayton! Johnson underneath. Cedric. What a finish. Ending in that quarter-final loss to Marquette, a game in which they blew that 14-point second-half lead. This is Foster from three. Gets it again! You can see the rotation on it. And even if he gets rib, he’s going to get friendly bounces.

Johnson! What an answer. Fremantle waiting to get in this game again. Near corner, Foster. Fending his way to the cup. He’s got it all working. So pretty, too. He comes through the lane. Shedrick into the paint. Mark into the three. Well short.

Where johnson able to tap it to himself. Cover deep in the corner. This is marked underneath weaver missed it nuclear factor there with his body. Musketeers looking to push oh he’s not again is he but here’s the timing. Look at the big fella knocking one. Since the early moments. Look at this. Wow. look up, you get a layup. Swain, basket hanging.

And contact. And then watch, he doesn’t get back on defense and watch it behind. You can’t see it on that one, but his hand pushes off the back. Musketeers at one point down 13. They’ve got a four-point lead mark beautiful you got it that’s a great move right there. The final three minutes. This is Weaver nearly stumbled. Conwell playing with three. Mark underneath.

Kent! This weave action. They like to run. See if they can dump it down to Fremantle. Here he is on the box. One of the premier shot blockers. Shedrick defends. Fremantle! Just brilliant! Here’s the tricks. And then that little bit of a separation. He’ll be down two poss

Shot clock at five. This is Fremantle. Misses badly. And look at Swain. Both teams are out of fouls. Texas is in the double bonus from this point forward. He misses the second. And Xavier’s got it. Texas trying to get to him. Two seconds. And there’s a knockout punch. To a Friday night first round date with Illinois of March. Just incredible.