00:01Good evening and welcome to Providence Rhode Island and to those of you impacted by the record setting snowfall here
00:07in the Northeast our thoughts are with you as we gather 24 hours delayed at Amica Mutual Pavilion for the
00:13second leaving the season between the Xavier Musketeers and the Providence Friars.
00:18This is Big E's Basketball on TV with Greg Anthony and J.B. Wong. Providence looking for a home win
00:26as Xavier looks to sweep the regular season.
00:29Nilevan Daniels gets the call. He was scoreless in six minutes of the last meeting against Xavier.
00:35And Carroll wins the tip, run underway. Xavier gets the first possession.
00:40There is Carroll, pushed off the block. Jameer Jones defending.
00:46Able to get back to that right shoulder and he's got the first bucket of the game.
00:55Ryan Mila at the foul line. Probing and able to get to that left hand.
01:01Enough with the travel woes. Let's get back to being on schedule. All of us, shall we?
01:06Malicevich gets all the way home.
01:08Puts tremendous pressure on the front line defense of your opponent.
01:12Osman Russe found the shooter opposite. An acrobatic finish at the gun for Jalen Steph.
01:19And Jones turns down the three. He rotates it through Daniels.
01:22Here's Sellers again, extending his range. And the lefty connects.
01:26He just does so many things well.
01:29You love it when he's under control.
01:33Now they shoot the gap. The athleticism of the Friars and the finish from Jones.
01:39Sellers against Roddy Anderson already off his Avery bench.
01:44Jason Edwards into the game. Able to go for the second straight contest for the fourth shooting spell.
01:50Continues Aruse, grabs the glass.
01:53In transition, the Friars are flying. Reverse layup for Jalen Sellers.
01:57And the reality is, Jalen, one of the issues with being able to defend it, it's so much harder when
02:03you play with the kind of pace that these two teams play with.
02:07It doesn't allow you to lock and load defensively.
02:10Yeah, that's saying a lot.
02:12They've had a lot of great front line players through the years.
02:16Xavier Borovicin, and finally it goes down.
02:20Offensive player.
02:22Osman Aruse had one on the block there.
02:23He's called for the basketball. Could not find it before Carroll got the switch, but the second half, right, given
02:29the way these two seasons have gone.
02:32Edwards can be a difference maker.
02:33He and Sellers are third in the conference in the score.
02:36And Pennis for a second chance opportunity.
02:39Pateris Pennis sticking with it.
02:45Jason Edwards calls his home number for three.
02:48He has a quick trigger.
02:50He said he wasn't much for the school portion of the program, so he wanted to accelerate that curve.
02:56Off the stoppage.
02:58Oswin Aruse scores in deep.
03:00Ramon looking his way.
03:02Still 12 to shoot.
03:05The side kick and roll.
03:06It's a switch on Aruse.
03:08This is all right.
03:09Dipping in.
03:10I mean, snapping the spell.
03:11That was the last foul they had to give.
03:15Nine minutes in the bonus now.
03:16The problem is the rest of the way in this first half.
03:18Neela feeling it and getting past the defender baseline.
03:24Sellers puts his back to the basket.
03:26Plays off two feet and finishes with the left hand.
03:30One and done for the musketeers.
03:32He does not be able to get anything from beyond that.
03:36Jameer Jones, they never stop the ball.
03:38And he gets a second by in the out.
03:44Edwards puts it back in the hands of Sellers.
03:46Down the lane with bad intentions and finishes at the front.
03:50They do not flinch on their takes.
03:53Here's Edwards.
03:54All day to look at it.
03:55He is in torch mode.
03:57All it takes here is just a couple, you know, see the ball go through the basket,
04:02get a little confidence, and then maybe you can figure out a way to get back in it.
04:05Or a beach in it.
04:0710-2 run and just get some momentum and get yourself back into it.
04:11Anything's possible.
04:12For the most turnover play team in the Big East, they just committed their first there.
04:18Neela puts his shoulder down.
04:20Gets through Trey Carroll but hit the underside of the rim.
04:22A rare run out for Anderson with some English in transition.
04:28Dillipore Beachin in rocks the dribble.
04:31With the Roosay defending.
04:33Another hoop here.
04:35Eight in a row for Xavier and Kim English has to stop it.
04:38Started playing the score a little bit and all of a sudden you can lose the momentum
04:41when you take that mindset.
04:44Sellers, their leading scorer with 11.
04:46And he launches.
04:47And he likes the length.
04:49You've been struggling a little bit to have one of your better players come out and knock down that triple
04:53to kind of reestablish your dominance.
04:56Tim English threw that off at the time.
05:00And that's something you've got to do.
05:02I mean, just any time as a score, you see the ball go through the basket.
05:05It's going to make you a better player.
05:07And it's giving his teammates and pop it as well.
05:10But now they've got to figure out.
05:12That's a pretty good company to be in.
05:17One.
05:18Yovon Daniels defending.
05:19Now Anderson to the lane and hits the pull-up game.
05:22Pass to the wing.
05:23Jameer Jones.
05:25That was right all the way.
05:26Anderson tracks it down.
05:28The pendulum swinging a little bit.
05:30The musketeers favor as he steps on the gas.
05:34And he's missing a more from the baseline in the hands of Yovon Milicevic.
05:39And he's able to strike one.
05:41Flows out what at one time was a dominant first session.
05:45Edwards working around Carroll.
05:47Knocks it down from the short corner.
05:50Now time to counter at the horn.
05:52The heave falls short.
05:53The defensive rebound.
05:56That drag screen from Arunze now rolling and rocking the rim.
06:01You saw it again there.
06:02That drop coverage.
06:04It's allowing for Edwards to kind of dictate that possession.
06:10Especially in transition.
06:13He's making him pay.
06:15Carroll the other way with numbers.
06:17Behind the back.
06:19Feeds the slasher.
06:20Xavier rolls it in.
06:22They're on the move.
06:23Eyes up in transition.
06:25Doesn't see the numbers.
06:26Gets it back from Boerbeach.
06:28And now he's downhill to the cup.
06:31He found himself at a different slot on the scouting report coming into tonight.
06:35This man's been amazing off the bench.
06:38They've had some success.
06:39They put up 97 in that first meeting.
06:41So scoring is something they feel like they can get going.
06:44Edwards with the handle and with the elbow jumper.
06:4719 tonight.
06:48He's got 32 as a season high.
06:51Back in December at Butler.
06:53Lychovic takes a long look at a triple.
06:55He could get interested.
06:57Lychovic at 22 and made four from distance.
07:00And the first meeting, a win over these fryers.
07:03A good answer there from Jameer-Jones.
07:04That's a strong take.
07:06This game is played at great max speed.
07:10And there you go again.
07:12All of a sudden now.
07:14A knockdown of three.
07:16They've made their last four shots.
07:17Isaiah Walker, seven and blue, is in the game.
07:20As Anderson gets all the way home and a free throw to Paula.
07:24They've been going to a little bit of a zone.
07:26Haven't shown this look yet.
07:27Just trying to make Providence think a little bit.
07:32Daniel delivers.
07:34Knocked that one down.
07:35Didn't let them two points for contest.
07:38But it's called upon with the fryers short-handed.
07:41Tell you what.
07:42And now offensively, this is what we have come to expect from Xavier.
07:47No answer.
07:48Oh, is there ever?
07:51Jameer-Jones spikes it.
07:53Well, we talked about it.
07:55From down 23 to within a dozen again.
07:59The Romain.
08:00Arunse.
08:00Under control.
08:02Jameer-Jones has out.
08:08Sellers.
08:09Able to turn the corner and finish with the left play on.
08:16Jovan Milicevic has turned it on in this second.
08:20Brady gets baseline.
08:22Misses from the second side.
08:24Orbeechin and did enough defensively.
08:26The hit ahead to Walker.
08:27To the three-point line.
08:29Wright turns it down.
08:30To put it down.
08:31Missed the layup.
08:32Offensive rebound in the putback from Walker.
08:35Walker's first points.
08:36He played at Wyoming High School.
08:38About six miles north of Sintas Center.
08:41Brady bounce pass.
08:42And the two-handed hammer.
08:44Great delivery for that finish.
08:47That's what's out of assists.
08:49Now slaloming through traffic.
08:52Roddy.
08:54Daniels over to the wing.
08:57Once again, Jameer-Jones playing at the rim.
09:00Gave up a basket each time.
09:03Fortunate there that they don't get hurt.
09:05Offensive rebound.
09:07Anderson has been a leading story for the musketeer.
09:11Where it becomes a possession-by-possession battle.
09:15And it's hard to do that when you play with as much pace as these two teams.
09:19And down 23.
09:20Can they do it tonight?
09:22Patino is staying in this zone.
09:25There's one other issue with the zone.
09:27If it's so hard to control your defensive path.
09:2910-11 teams.
09:31It's rebounding margin in the biggies.
09:33So in there.
09:33In the zone.
09:34As you said.
09:34All the more susceptible.
09:35This man, senior, from the defensive standpoint.
09:40A deep launch.
09:42Right in Providence.
09:43That happens.
09:45Missed all six of his shots.
09:46Including five threes.
09:48Neela left it on the iron.
09:50But inside.
09:51We want to make sure if we take a shot.
09:53It's going to be the last five seconds of the shot clock.
09:55Every possession.
09:57With this kind of lead.
09:59Sellers rising.
10:00And hitting.
10:02Much of the zone here tonight.
10:05Continues to deliver.
10:07They have answered the challenge for Trey Carroll and Xavier.
10:10Keep knowing you've got three guys on the floor that Xavier has really struggled to guard.
10:16On the blow-by.
10:18Watch.
10:19He is a terrific time and had a great game.
10:22But you've got to be a little bit more resistant if you're Xavier.
10:26He's got 27.
10:27Listen there.
10:28You want to be playing well, regardless of your record.
10:32You want to feel like you're playing.
10:34Continue to fight.
10:36Still feel like there's a lot to play for.
10:40It'll be a 27.9 in defeat for Roddy Anderson.
10:44They've won four of their last six.
10:47Perhaps a late season surge for Kim English and the Friars.
10:51Still have a look at a top five seed.
10:54They're able to get a regular season split with the Musketeers.
10:57Both programs defending their home floor.
11:00Now, let's get up.
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