Xavier women's basketball 2024-25 thread

[HomerCecil]

The Big East preseason coaches poll was released yesterday:

1. UConn – 100 (10 first-place votes)
2. Creighton – 91 (1)
3. Providence – 71
4. St. John's - 67
5. Georgetown – 66
6. Villanova – 56
7. Seton Hall – 51
8. Butler – 46
9. DePaul – 24
10. Marquette - 23
11. Xavier - 10

The 10 points mean that Xavier was picked last on all 10 ballots (coaches do not vote on their own team), which shouldn't be surprising at this point. Many on the board seem to think this is perfectly acceptable since Xavier has modest success in non-revenue sports.

However, the team is really much more Billie's team than last year with 8 newcomers. Xavier also has 12 international players this season, which is more than any other team in Division I.

Not really much else to say but perhaps they'll surprise us.

[Xville]

The bar is really low at this point. Just showing some improvement, and something to build on for future years would be nice and different.

[bjf123]

12 international players? What’s that leave, 3 from the US? I just hope they’re competitive this year!


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[HomerCecil]

12 international players? What’s that leave, 3 from the US? I just hope they’re competitive this year!


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Four, I think. This is from the release on goxavier.com about the preseason poll being released:

Xavier enters the season with 12 international players, the most in NCAA DI Women's Basketball this season. The 12 international players are from the following countries: Spain (4), Finland, Australia, Slovakia, Croatia, Germany, Serbia, England, Republic of Georgia.

[paulxu]

Four, I think. This is from the release on goxavier.com about the preseason poll being released:

Xavier enters the season with 12 international players, the most in NCAA DI Women's Basketball this season. The 12 international players are from the following countries: Spain (4), Finland, Australia, Slovakia, Croatia, Germany, Serbia, England, Republic of Georgia.

It’s the European national team with a token lady from Australia.

[Xville]

Looks like same shit different year. Way to go Greg Christopher!!!

Down 20 with four minutes left… women have scored 4 points in the second half against powerhouse San Jose state. I mean they did win 18 games…… in total over the last three years

[Cornbread1190]

Greg Christopher Pack up your personal belongings… you got to go!
This program has never recovered from the Brian Neal experiment…
Christopher has been a failure in picking a leader that can champion a winning women’s basketball program.

[GoMuskies]

I'm not a huge Christopher guy, but I DEFINITELY don't think we should fire an AD because our women's basketball program stinks.

[Xville]

I'm not a huge Christopher guy, but I DEFINITELY don't think we should fire an AD because our women's basketball program stinks.

Picking Steele over Kelsey is a fireable offense, the rest is gravy. Christopher is a dork who failed up his entire career, and he should have been gone long ago.

[bjf123]

Picking Steele over Kelsey is a fireable offense, the rest is gravy. Christopher is a dork who failed up his entire career, and he should have been gone long ago.

Can we blame him for the parking debacle? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


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[X-band '01]

Women's basketball is the only sport that has been on a decidedly downward trajectory under Greg Christopher. Soccer's been on the upswing, baseball has been competitive (with the occasional NCAA Tournament appearance). Volleyball has also had occasional decent seasons, but nobody outside of Creighton and Marquette has cracked the top of the league there.

[Xville]

Women's basketball is the only sport that has been on a decidedly downward trajectory under Greg Christopher. Soccer's been on the upswing, baseball has been competitive (with the occasional NCAA Tournament appearance). Volleyball has also had occasional decent seasons, but nobody outside of Creighton and Marquette has cracked the top of the league there.

Men’s soccer is going back to not being good, and volleyball is on the same trajectory it has been for 25 years. Pure mediocrity which is not surprising since the coach went to Dayton

[Cornbread1190]

Christopher and Billi Chambers who only wants to vacation on Xavier’s dime recruiting Foreign players should be Fired for this Performance!
Trump = Close the borders, finish that wall. America first! We have great players here in the home land! USA, USA, USA! Fight, Fight, Fight!
SJSU 10 6 21 18 55
XAVIER 13 8 6 9 36

[GoMuskies]

Women's basketball is the only sport that has been on a decidedly downward trajectory under Greg Christopher. Soccer's been on the upswing, baseball has been competitive (with the occasional NCAA Tournament appearance). Volleyball has also had occasional decent seasons, but nobody outside of Creighton and Marquette has cracked the top of the league there.

Umm, might want to check on the men's basketball program's trajectory under Christopher.

[HomerCecil]

All I will say at this point is that it's actually really, really hard to be this bad for this long. It's truly staggering. This is not, "Oh, the women's program isn't very good or is having a rough patch." This is the worst power conference program in the sport of women's basketball, and it has been for several years and across multiple coaching regimes. Total incompetence and I applaud Christopher for pulling it off.

https://x.com/PrezHanycz/status/1735850779779436883

That's a tweet from the university president from December 15. it must be a really, really, really long road.

[Xville]

I don't understand the strategy of building up your team with a bunch of international players when your campus is in the middle of a talent rich high school basketball location. It makes zero sense. Yes, you aren't going to go steal recruits from Louisville, UK, Ohio State, but what you can do is start to foster relationships at the local and regional level so that at the least, Xavier's name is being mentioned and you can establish pipelines. Maybe you start getting those 2nd or 3rd best players on the teams...that's how I'd build. I don't understand the strat at all.

[Cornbread1190]

I don't understand the strategy of building up your team with a bunch of international players when your campus is in the middle of a talent rich high school basketball location. It makes zero sense. Yes, you aren't going to go steal recruits from Louisville, UK, Ohio State, but what you can do is start to foster relationships at the local and regional level so that at the least, Xavier's name is being mentioned and you can establish pipelines. Maybe you start getting those 2nd or 3rd best players on the teams...that's how I'd build. I don't understand the strat at all.

Only explanation, Kamala Chambers open Border policy.

[HomerCecil]

I went and looked at the play-by-play. Xavier hit 21 points with 4:18 left in the second quarter. They were at 27 points with 1:43 left in the fourth quarter (before scoring 9 points in the last 103 seconds of the game).

This means that over a span of 23 minutes and 59 seconds of game action, they scored a total of six points. That's like a middle school-level performance.

[muskiefan82]

I have to know. Did Steele coach the Miami women's team tonight?

[Xville]

Thw women, thru 3 games, have already surpassed last year's win total. I dunno what to say about it more than that lol.

[noteggs]

The Chambers effect! Not sure what that means as well..

[Section 200]

3 wins in a row! Maybe we get a few Big East wins this year

[bjf123]

3 wins in a row! Maybe we get a few Big East wins this year

Way to go, ladies!


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