Some XU Win/Loss stats- last 30 years

[MHettel]

I was curious about the XU record against some of our better competition, so I did some legwork to pull together a history of our wins and losses over the last 30 years (1991-92 to 2020-21).

I literally looked at our schedule and results each year with the goal to identify games against teams that would be considered to currently be in a "Big 6" conference. So the "major" teams. I took a bit of a forward view by considering the composition of the Big 6 conferences in a couple years. As an example, I considered UC and BYU to be in the B12, while Texas and Oklahoma are counted as SEC teams. I also included games against Gonzaga because frankly they have just earned the "major" tag.

Also of note is that I counted games against teams if we played them BEFORE they were part of a Big 6 Conference. Virginia Tech, Butler, Creighton, and a few other teams fall into these categories...

STATS
-Overall XU record over the last 30 years is 673-295 (69.5%)
-Record against "Big 6" teams is 206-165 (55.5%)
-We have played 38.3% of our games against BIG 6 Competition. That percentage will continue to increase now that we are in the BigEast
-Our record against non Big 6 teams is 467-130 (78.2%)
- We have played 59 different "big 6" opponents
- We have more wins than losses against 29 opponents. We have a .500 record against 13 opponents. We have more losses than wins against 17 opponents.
- We have an overall winning record against 5 of the 6 conferences, with the Pac 12 being at .500 exactly.
- 109-80 vs. Big East
- 25-22 vs. ACC
- 15-11 vs. B10
- 8-8 vs. Pac12
- 25-18 vs. SEC
- 24-22 vs. B12
- 0-4 vs. Gonzaga.....
- Most wins: Butler (23), UC (17), St. Johns & DePaul (14), Creighton (13), Marquette & GT (12), Virginia Tech (9).
- Most Wins against teams that arent traditional rivals or conference foes: Purdue & Wake (5).
- Teams that have "owned us": Nova (3-15), Gonzaga (0-4), Duke (0-3), Notre Dame (2-5), UCLA (0-2), Tennessee (1-4), Baylor (1-3).


Thats it. No real commentary to share. I was interested in knowing this info, and thought I'd share.

[X-band '01]

I'm more disgusted with the 2-5 record against Notre Dame; especially considering that 4 of the 5 losses came against John MacLeod-coached teams.

[bleedXblue]

that Gonzage stat hurts......hurts me a lot

[GoMuskies]

that Gonzage stat hurts......hurts me a lot

All ass-kickings, too, except for the one that probably SHOULD have been an ass kicking (3 seed Gonzaga vs. 14 seed Xavier).

[muskiefan82]

Who hasn't X played in the Big6 conferences? I found it interesting that the game against Oklahoma State was the first meeting between the two schools so I went to take a look.

ACC: X has never played Boston College or Syracuse. Haven't played UNC since 1950-51 season
B10: X has never played Penn State. I couldn't believe it. Last played Mich. St during the 1932-33 season!
B12: X has never played Texas Tech. Checked Oklahoma State off this year
PAC12: X has never played Washington State, Oregon State, or California
SEC: X has never played Arkansas. Last played South Carolina in 1941-42 season and UK in the 1968-69 season. That is just wrong.

[xukeith]

Who hasn't X played in the Big6 conferences? I found it interesting that the game against Oklahoma State was the first meeting between the two schools so I went to take a look.

ACC: X has never played Boston College or Syracuse. Haven't played UNC since 1950-51 season
B10: X has never played Penn State. I couldn't believe it. Last played Mich. St during the 1932-33 season!
B12: X has never played Texas Tech. Checked Oklahoma State off this year
PAC12: X has never played Washington State, Oregon State, or California
SEC: X has never played Arkansas. Last played South Carolina in 1941-42 season and UK in the 1968-69 season. That is just wrong.

good stuff.

[XUBison]

That Nova stat is the elephant in the room I am perfectly happy to keep ignoring.

[MHettel]

Against St. Johns, Depaul and GTown we are 40-11, by the way.

[whopper]

That Nova stat is the elephant in the room I am perfectly happy to keep ignoring.What kills me about Nova is that during our recent good years 15-18 we were slightly worse at ever position where as other teams that won (providence, Butler, St Johns, Creighton) has one player who dominated his matchup(typically a string pt guard like Zegorowski, Ponds, Cartwright, Baldwin) who dominated his position and made others better. We have really never had a scoring pt guard (Miles, Q, ) who could take over a game

[paulxu]

Tu?

[XUOWNSUC]

Tu?

Yup.

[UCGRAD4X]

I'm surprised VD is one of our 'most wins' considering, you know, the Carter Administration thing.

[whopper]

Tu?i have only been a fan since 2014(my daughters (2) there ) and am referring to the Villanova deficit in wins.

[WCWIII]

Similar stat ... I previously compiled and will look at it ... but winning an OOC game vs a then-ranked top 25 team on the road. Very rare. Love your stats MHettel.

[MHettel]

Tu?

Semaj was a scoring PG. So was Sumner. Although we never really got to see Sumner for an extended period in full stride. He could have been an all time great XU player.

[XUBison]

Tu?

He was referring to the era in which we’ve been slaughtered routinely by Nova, a stretch that mostly preceded Tu. That said, I think our record versus Nova would be much different during our Big East era had Tu been a part of it. In fact, didn’t Tu hit something like 200 free-throws in an early season tournament game to beat Nova his freshman year? At least that’s how I remember it.

[Cincypunk.org]

He was referring to the era in which we’ve been slaughtered routinely by Nova, a stretch that mostly preceded Tu. That said, I think our record versus Nova would be much different during our Big East era had Tu been a part of it. In fact, didn’t Tu hit something like 200 free-throws in an early season tournament game to beat Nova his freshman year? At least that’s how I remember it.

My memory is bad but I feel like that was 10 FTs against Memphis in a tourney in the Caribbean. The game before or after the Dante Jackson buzzer beater against VT.

It all melts together after a while.

[webxu]

Both UCLA losses in the tourney :(

[D-West & PO-Z]

He was referring to the era in which we’ve been slaughtered routinely by Nova, a stretch that mostly preceded Tu. That said, I think our record versus Nova would be much different during our Big East era had Tu been a part of it. In fact, didn’t Tu hit something like 200 free-throws in an early season tournament game to beat Nova his freshman year? At least that’s how I remember it.

Virginia Tech

[D-West & PO-Z]

My memory is bad but I feel like that was 10 FTs against Memphis in a tourney in the Caribbean. The game before or after the Dante Jackson buzzer beater against VT.

It all melts together after a while.

Yes, that tournament, I was thinking Va Tech was the FT game but I think you are right that it was Memphis.