Raise Your Sword

[MuskiePimp23]

With a new season kicking off tonight I feel we are ready to take things to the next level. The pre-season predictions I've seen for us from anywhere from 2nd-5th in the conference are nice, but it is time to kick down the door and win this conference title. Everyone seems to point to us losing Davis and Stainbrook and seems to forget Villanova lost Pinkston, Hilliard, and Ennis. I think we will be better at PG and in the post. We have speed at certain positions. We have shooters at every position. We have size and length. We have rebounding, toughness, and what I believe will be great leadership. We have experience and youth. We have depth at every position.

I am sick of people outside not even ranking us in the pre-season top 25 while a team like Butler gets ranked and a team like UK is #1 in the polls after losing 87% of their scoring. I believe this Xavier team will be better than both when all is said and done at the end of this season. I don't buy that game at Michigan being unwinnable. We need to go up to Michigan and hand it to them. We are a better team. Screw the Alabama's and Wichita State's being so good. We should roll both of those pretenders.

I expect Xavier to win the Big East Conference Regular Season title with a record of 15-3. I expect Xavier to be a 2 or 3 seed entering the NCAA Tournament. And I expect that this is the year when we finally put it all together and kick down that door that is the 2nd weekend of the NCAA Tourney and get to the Final Four. I believe and I know the team in that locker room believes. Jalen said he was going to get us to a Final Four when he committed and this is his year when we blow through that door and Jalen rides off into the sunset of the NBA Lottery.

I know it is early, but I expect great things from this team and from our fans. I expect greatness and believe this team will deliver. So Raise Your Sword, for tonight is the first of many. TONIGHT WE RIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[muskiefan82]

It is on!!

[drudy23]

We ride...Final Four potential the next few years. Excited for the season to start.

[nuts4xu]

"Raise your sword" --Might be the gayest motto we have ever had.

[JTG]

"Raise your sword" --Might be the gayest motto we have ever had.

Rejected Shirt Ideas:

Stab the motherfuckers....too crude

Off with their heads....too ISIS

So we're stuck with raise your sword, It's still better than " We are VD"

[xeus]

"Raise your sword" --Might be the gayest motto we have ever had.

No kidding. I feel as if my safe space is being violated.

[boozehound]

"Raise your sword" --Might be the gayest motto we have ever had.

That was my initial reaction as well. It's still my reaction, actually.

[GIMMFD]

I love the optimism! We have some questions on our team, as we should, but it's a new season, and they'll work themselves out during the course of the year. I am just excited to see what intensity we come out at, and how we perform through the season. I have complete faith in these guys, and I would love to see us get a 2 or 3 seed and go to the Final Four. It's a new season, and as said before, tonight. We ride!

[chico]

I always wondered what it meant to get "Xaved" but I think I finally figured it out. It's what happens to you if you tell someone in the men's room to raise their sword.

[Masterofreality]

Here we go.....

Sneaking up on people again.

Apparently Sweet 16's mean nothing...

[pimpinthebox]

At least it's not as bad as this...

1794

(Love the mustard on the hot dog.)

[paulxu]

What ever happened to "Zip 'em Up!"

[Jehoya]

With a new season kicking off tonight I feel we are ready to take things to the next level. The pre-season predictions I've seen for us from anywhere from 2nd-5th in the conference are nice, but it is time to kick down the door and win this conference title. Everyone seems to point to us losing Davis and Stainbrook and seems to forget Villanova lost Pinkston, Hilliard, and Ennis. I think we will be better at PG and in the post. We have speed at certain positions. We have shooters at every position. We have size and length. We have rebounding, toughness, and what I believe will be great leadership. We have experience and youth. We have depth at every position.

I am sick of people outside not even ranking us in the pre-season top 25 while a team like Butler gets ranked and a team like UK is #1 in the polls after losing 87% of their scoring. I believe this Xavier team will be better than both when all is said and done at the end of this season. I don't buy that game at Michigan being unwinnable. We need to go up to Michigan and hand it to them. We are a better team. Screw the Alabama's and Wichita State's being so good. We should roll both of those pretenders.

I expect Xavier to win the Big East Conference Regular Season title with a record of 15-3. I expect Xavier to be a 2 or 3 seed entering the NCAA Tournament. And I expect that this is the year when we finally put it all together and kick down that door that is the 2nd weekend of the NCAA Tourney and get to the Final Four. I believe and I know the team in that locker room believes. Jalen said he was going to get us to a Final Four when he committed and this is his year when we blow through that door and Jalen rides off into the sunset of the NBA Lottery.

I know it is early, but I expect great things from this team and from our fans. I expect greatness and believe this team will deliver. So Raise Your Sword, for tonight is the first of many. TONIGHT WE RIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chills....

[Milhouse]

Get ready for this thread to be bumped several times this year. likely when we underachieve.

Or we'll have another fire mack thread. that should also be great.

[xeus]

What ever happened to "Zip 'em Up!"

It's hard to raise your sword if you're zipped up.

[Tardy Turtle]

Let's say your sword has been raised for more than four hours. Should you see someone about it?

Just asking for a friend.

[SemajParlor]

What ever happened to "Zip 'em Up!"

Zip Em Up is Xavier's true motto.

[muskiefan82]

Zip 'em down and Raise your sword!!

Reminds me of "The Fly is open! Lets go Peay!" from years past.

[paulxu]

So this would probably mean lower your sword.

http://i3.cpcache.com/product/603007529/zip_em_up_womens_tank_top.jpg?height=350&width=350

[Cheesehead]

Team #94: We put people in body bags!

[MuskiePimp23]

With a new season kicking off tonight I feel we are ready to take things to the next level. The pre-season predictions I've seen for us from anywhere from 2nd-5th in the conference are nice, but it is time to kick down the door and win this conference title. Everyone seems to point to us losing Davis and Stainbrook and seems to forget Villanova lost Pinkston, Hilliard, and Ennis. I think we will be better at PG and in the post. We have speed at certain positions. We have shooters at every position. We have size and length. We have rebounding, toughness, and what I believe will be great leadership. We have experience and youth. We have depth at every position.

I am sick of people outside not even ranking us in the pre-season top 25 while a team like Butler gets ranked and a team like UK is #1 in the polls after losing 87% of their scoring. I believe this Xavier team will be better than both when all is said and done at the end of this season. I don't buy that game at Michigan being unwinnable. We need to go up to Michigan and hand it to them. We are a better team. Screw the Alabama's and Wichita State's being so good. We should roll both of those pretenders.

I expect Xavier to win the Big East Conference Regular Season title with a record of 15-3. I expect Xavier to be a 2 or 3 seed entering the NCAA Tournament. And I expect that this is the year when we finally put it all together and kick down that door that is the 2nd weekend of the NCAA Tourney and get to the Final Four. I believe and I know the team in that locker room believes. Jalen said he was going to get us to a Final Four when he committed and this is his year when we blow through that door and Jalen rides off into the sunset of the NBA Lottery.

I know it is early, but I expect great things from this team and from our fans. I expect greatness and believe this team will deliver. So Raise Your Sword, for tonight is the first of many. TONIGHT WE RIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now that we've done this I expect us to be ranked next week and we will have to deal with not flying under the radar as much. I really see us being the new Villanova of this conference and rightly ascending the flagship that we are. We just need to be able to deal with more attention now, but this reminded me a little of when we rolled IU in 2007-2008 up in Chicago when they were ranked #8 that year. A year we finished in the Elite Eight losing to UCLA. This team has more talent and the ability to go further. Monday night WE RIDE AGAIN!

[xukeith]

I don't think we will be ranked next week. X has votes but beat a #24v team on road. They likely will be getting more votes and creep closer to meaningless top 25. I suspect votes in the 27-30 range. If X wins all non conference games before, during, and after Orlando classic, they will be top 15.

[THRILLHOUSE]

X #19 in Parrish's latest poll - http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/eye-on-college-basketball/25383789/xavier-wins-at-michigan-and-is-now-ranked-19th-in-the-top-25-and-one

[xudash]

Nice compliments from Belien:

“We’ve some really good teams come in here. Sometimes we were able to win. Sometimes we weren’t. That was as good of a team as I’ve seen come here at any time. They’ve got all the pieces. They’re just really good,” Beilein said.

“They hit the backboards obviously much better than us. They got loose balls with tremendous grit. And then they’ve got a great mix of guys that can drive the ball, guys that can shoot the ball, with their big men. So they’re sitting on something great right now.”

[MuskiePimp23]

I don't think we will be ranked next week. X has votes but beat a #24v team on road. They likely will be getting more votes and creep closer to meaningless top 25. I suspect votes in the 27-30 range. If X wins all non conference games before, during, and after Orlando classic, they will be top 15.

The reason I think we will be ranked is we didn't just win, but we won on the road in dominating fashion. Beilein's points also are very telling. This team has all the pieces. I think we need to have it together mentally, playing together, and leadership over the course of a long season and the sky is the limit.

[BMoreX]

I don't think we will be ranked next week. X has votes but beat a #24v team on road. They likely will be getting more votes and creep closer to meaningless top 25. I suspect votes in the 27-30 range. If X wins all non conference games before, during, and after Orlando classic, they will be top 15.

A road win against a ranked opponent is cause for X showing up in the Top 25.

[X-band '01]

For Xavier to jump into the Top 25, someone else has to go down. Yes, Xavier will go up and Michigan will fall out, but also watch out for the Miami Hurricanes. They blasted #16 Utah last night in the Puerto Rico tournament; they'll also get a chance to knock off Butler tomorrow night for that tournament championship.

Maybe Butler falls out if Miami beats them decisively, but I'm not betting on that outcome. Cincinnati and SMU are other teams that could be Top 25 going into Thanksgiving Week.

[xudash]

Yep. Parrish is only one guy, but putting us in at #19 obviously is nothing like barely sneaking us in at 23 of 24, etc.

We made a bit of a statement up there.

[XUFan09]

A road win against a ranked opponent is cause for X showing up in the Top 25.
Keith isn't really talking about what ought to be the case but rather what is likely. Xavier could make it, but the voters tend to be a bit rigid. Rather than actually re-evaluating their earlier assessment, they just shift teams up and down, as if all changes should only be on the margins because they were close to right in the first place. This formula doesn't really account for the possibility that they were really wrong about a team.

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[XU-PA]

http://realtimerpi.com/rpi_Men.html

I've seen us as high as 3 in RPI, this one has us in the top ten. Go ahead now, crown us kings of the world. we'll play a tourney vs Cal State Bakersfeld and then Louisiana Tech for the NCAA title!

[MuskiePimp23]

With a new season kicking off tonight I feel we are ready to take things to the next level. The pre-season predictions I've seen for us from anywhere from 2nd-5th in the conference are nice, but it is time to kick down the door and win this conference title. Everyone seems to point to us losing Davis and Stainbrook and seems to forget Villanova lost Pinkston, Hilliard, and Ennis. I think we will be better at PG and in the post. We have speed at certain positions. We have shooters at every position. We have size and length. We have rebounding, toughness, and what I believe will be great leadership. We have experience and youth. We have depth at every position.

I am sick of people outside not even ranking us in the pre-season top 25 while a team like Butler gets ranked and a team like UK is #1 in the polls after losing 87% of their scoring. I believe this Xavier team will be better than both when all is said and done at the end of this season. I don't buy that game at Michigan being unwinnable. We need to go up to Michigan and hand it to them. We are a better team. Screw the Alabama's and Wichita State's being so good. We should roll both of those pretenders.

I expect Xavier to win the Big East Conference Regular Season title with a record of 15-3. I expect Xavier to be a 2 or 3 seed entering the NCAA Tournament. And I expect that this is the year when we finally put it all together and kick down that door that is the 2nd weekend of the NCAA Tourney and get to the Final Four. I believe and I know the team in that locker room believes. Jalen said he was going to get us to a Final Four when he committed and this is his year when we blow through that door and Jalen rides off into the sunset of the NBA Lottery.

I know it is early, but I expect great things from this team and from our fans. I expect greatness and believe this team will deliver. So Raise Your Sword, for tonight is the first of many. TONIGHT WE RIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just wanted to point this out as dookie Vitale was saying all of this after watching us play a few games in Orlando. It is funny, but if you actually watched this program a little, you would already know that. I really feel this is the Xavier team that can get us to that next level to a Final Four. The talking heads at ESPN and the media bias like to put down the Big East since they don't cover us as much. I just want to prove these idiots wrong in March/April. It's a long season and we need to continue to improve to play our best basketball in March and April. The scary part is we really have not shot the ball well this season until tonight and our FT shooting tonight was terrible. We have room to improve. We also need to be mentally tough as the season wears on and we run into adversity because the Big East is going to be very, very good, just like it was last year. That start to conference play is going to be brutal.