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00:00A DRS yesterday in Dayton, Ohio, but it felt like Cincinnati, Ohio, with the home crowd traveling from Cincy to Dayton, replicating the Cintas Center for Xavier and spurring on the Musketeers in a dramatic second half comeback.
00:16That is always the embodiment of what we see throughout the big dance, Xavier victorious in the matchup against Texas, 86 to 80.
00:25The Musketeers do cover as a two and a half point, you could almost say home favorite, a total of 150 and a hulk does sky over.
00:34Donnie, we thought the difference in this game for what was going to be closely contested could be the Musketeers as the sixth best three point shooting team in the country.
00:44Last night, that came through, especially in clutch moment after clutch moment.
00:49Sean Miller's Musketeers, 12 of 25 from deep, led by Marcus Foster, who was four of five from range as well.
00:57Xavier wins. Xavier covers.
01:00Xavier is on to the round of 64.
01:03Yeah, two and a half, three and a half.
01:05If it was around the four and a half came into play late in that game.
01:07But understand this, too.
01:08Like the handicap for me was Xavier Musketeers said multiple times.
01:12If you look just on paper, because we're at a conference and that's where it gets a little bit of a struggle for me.
01:17But the handicap was towards Xavier Musketeers.
01:19I thought they had an edge in certain instances against the Longhorns that they certainly could take advantage of.
01:23And they did. But also the advantage for the Texas Longhorns was they play in the toughest and deepest conference in college basketball.
01:30You give them the benefit of the doubt.
01:31Then I sat here yesterday and said, you know what?
01:33It's really interesting because there's a lot of red with the Texas A&M Longhorns, which means a lot of losses in conference play.
01:39They were six and 12.
01:41There is something to be playing tough teams because they were technically is a tough team.
01:44They're a tournament team, but also there's not moral victories like, hey, tough team came close, didn't win.
01:50But that felt like that was the schedule for Texas this year, where they're six and 12 getting the benefit of we didn't remember many games.
01:56We stayed close against a lot of good teams and will give you the benefit of the doubt.
01:59That was exactly how it played out in game one for them in the tournament.
02:03Played a good team in good competition and didn't win, but stayed close.
02:07And are you giving them the benefit of the doubt?
02:09Well, no, they didn't cover and they're going home.
02:11So the cap was towards Xavier, but we're just trusting the SEC.
02:14And it's been you pointed out to start the show. All right, a lot of SEC teams in. Was it a great Texas team?
02:19No, but it wasn't like Texas was the 11 going against a higher seed.
02:23It was 11 versus 11. You trusted the SEC and you lost.