Natisha Hiedeman and Allazia Blockton had double-doubles and two other seniors reached double figures on Senior Day and No. 11 Marquette rolled to a 79-53 win over Xavier on Sunday to clinch a share of the Big East Conference title.
Allazia Blockton became the first Marquette player, men or women, to score 2,000 career points and the 10th-ranked Golden Eagles beat Xavier 90-44 on Friday night.
With Xavier falling at Providence, there is room for a fourth No. 1 seed alongside Duke, Villanova and Michigan State. Virginia is certainly a candidate after stifling North Carolina. The winner of tonight's West Virginia-Oklahoma game also merits consideration. Interestingly, WVU owns a head-to-head victory over UVa.
Loyola announced Tuesday that it has hired Kate Achter, who was an assistant at Xavier last season and the team's recruiting coordinator, to replace Sheryl Swoopes as head coach.
Using Strength of Record rankings and BPI, we look at the accomplishments of the most likely contenders for top seeds in the NCAA tournament.
Xavier really out of sorts. Gotta think the Sumner injury has affected them and understandably so.
Villanova-Xavier should be a good one. Saw Chris Mack at shoot around last night. He said "to win the Big East, you have to be able to beat Villanova." Xavier hasn't done that since joining the Big East. But despite Musketeers undefeated record said the Wildcats had more pressure since they are expected to win.
Schools that helped Lauren Hill realize her dream of scoring a basket in a game say 5,000 bobbleheads of the late inspirational Ohio player will be given out at a season-opening event.
Here are 10 teams that might as well be considered top-25-level squads in advance of the 2015-16 season.
The University of Maryland said Friday that assistant women's basketball coach Bryce McKey resigned following his suspension after a player he coached at Xavier accused him of groping her.
Eamonn Brennan discusses the Xavier Musketeers' 75-67 win over the Georgia State Panthers to advance to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament.
Kale has seemingly been seen everywhere these days, but next Friday, the once discarded green that has risen to prominence will take on new life -- as an in-arena giveaway.
Butler and Xavier have not notified the Atlantic 10 that they plan to leave the conference to join the "new" Big East, A-10 commissioner Bernadette McGlade said Saturday.
| TEAM | CONF | GB | OVR |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marquette | 15-3 | - | 27-8 |
| DePaul | 14-4 | 1 | 26-8 |
| Butler | 11-7 | 4 | 23-10 |
| Villanova | 9-9 | 6 | 19-13 |
| Georgetown | 9-9 | 6 | 19-16 |
| Providence | 8-10 | 7 | 19-16 |
| Creighton | 8-10 | 7 | 15-16 |
| Seton Hall | 7-11 | 8 | 15-16 |
| St. John's | 7-11 | 8 | 15-16 |
| Xavier | 2-16 | 13 | 11-19 |
