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2019-2020 NCAA Basketball
(11-2) Xavier Musketeers vs. Villanova Wildcats (9-2)
Date: Monday December 30
Time: 6:30 PM ET
Venue: Finneran Pavillion, Villanova, PA.
CBB Moneyline Odds: TBA
CBB Betting Odds: Nova -5.5
CBB Betting Total: 139.5
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Xavier Musketeers
Less than two years ago the Xavier Musketeers were announced as a one-seed in the NCAA Tournament.
A week later it lost to ninth-seeded Florida State. And in just about another week, Chris Mack signed a seven-year contract at Louisville to become the new permanent head coach in the aftermath the scandal under Rick Pitino’s watch.
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Louisville seeking out Mack, whom it will pay $4m per season, and Mack, who had been at Xavier for nine years and raised a rather large family there, accepting its offer became the final storyline in Travis Steele’s ascent to NCAA Division I Head Coach.
Steele didn’t play varsity basketball as an undergrad at Butler but instead worked as an assistant at nearby Ben Davis High School and eventually became the graduate assist at Ohio State.
He coached at Wabash Valley, a community college in Mount Carmel, Illinois, for a year and then returned to Division I as a video coordinator for the Indiana Hoosiers. In 2008, he was promoted to the bench video coordinator and stayed there until 2008, in which he was promoted to an assistant coach after Head Coach Kelvin Sampson was fired.
Sean Miller hired him at Xavier the next season and he’s been there ever since. He finished 9–9, tied for third-place in the Big East in his first season.
The Musketeers are better this year. They retained their three highest scorers from Steele’s first season, all three of whom started their Xavier careers when Chris Mack was the head coach.
Villanova Wildcats
At Villanova is about as tough as it gets for a Big East opener, though.
The ‘Cats lost a couple games early in the season to teams better than they were (Ohio State ran them out of the gym in Columbus, 76–51, similar to a year ago when Villanova was blown-out by Michigan as the defending national champion, except that was a home game, and Baylor got them in a true neutral site spot in Conway, South Carolina).
They haven’t lost since, five in a row, and the last win came over Kansas, by a point, at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia.
This one will be at the smaller, much newer, Finneran Pavillion, which could be sleepy on a Monday evening with the students off campus.
So Villanova, beware, of a worthy opponent storming in to open conference play.
CBB Betting Trends:
- XAV are 8-1 ATS in their last 9 vs. Big East.
- Over is 6-2 in XAV last 8 overall.
- Over is 5-2-1 in XAV last 8 road games.
- Over is 12-5 in VILL last 17 overall.
- Over is 7-3 in VILL last 10 home games.
- Under is 9-4 in VILL last 13 Mon. games.
- Head to Head: Favorite is 12-3 ATS in the last 15 meetings.
- Head to Head: XAV are 3-11 ATS in the last 14 meetings.
Free Xavier Musketeers vs. Villanova Wildcats NCAAB Prediction: Xavier.
This handicapper likes Xavier, in general.
The Musketeers are 11–2 but they’re only 4–6 ATS; conference play, where they may initially be regarded as second-tier, is where they start becoming profitable.
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