Xavier Musketeers men’s basketball

The Xavier Musketeers men’s basketball Group represents Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The school’s team now competes in the Big East Conference. Of all Division I programs yet to create a last 4, Xavier gets the most all-time championship wins with 27. Xavier has appeared in the NCAA Championship 27 times, 15 times in the last 17 years. On March 11, 2018, Xavier made its first No. 1 seed for the NCAA Tournament.
Xavier won four Atlantic 10 Tournament Championships (1998, 2002, 2004 and 2006). Xavier has won or shared 17 regular season conference championships, while winning 9 conference tournament championships. In addition, they’ve won one Big East Conference regular season title in 2018.
Xavier has been recorded among the top-20 most precious college basketball programs in america.
The first Xavier Basketball game on album was February 20, 1920 in the Fenwick Club in Cincinnati. Coached by Joe Meyer, the Musketeers compiled a 94–52 record during Meyer’s’s 13-year run as head trainer from 1920 to 1933. The Musketeer’s success continued under second head coach Clem Crowe. Throughout Crowe’s 10 years since Xavier head coach, Xavier compiled a record of 96–78. Crowe’s 96 wins as a head trainer rank fourth all-time among Xavier head trainers. [5]
Following the 1942–43 season, play was suspended for the subsequent two seasons because of World War II. In 1945, the program declared under the leadership of head coach Ed Burns. In his one season as head coach, Burns compiled a list of 3–16.
Back in 1946, Burns was replaced by Lew Hirt. Under Hirt, the Musketeers first postseason appearance was in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) throughout the 1948 NAIA National Basketball Tournament, the national championship for small schools. Xavier ended in 4th place, dropping to Hamline University at the national third-place game, 58–59. 1948 was the only year Xavier appeared in the NAIA Tournament.
Back in 1951, Hirt has been replaced as head coach by Ned Wulk. Wulk guided the Musketeers to National Invitational Tournament appearances in 1956 and 1957. The 1956 appearance marked Xavier’s first NIT win, an 84–80 victory over Saint Louis.
Following a loss to Bradley from the 1957 NIT, Wulk was replaced as head coach by Jim McCafferty. McCafferty headed the Musketeers back to a third straight NIT at 1958. With wins over Niagara, Bradley, St. Bonaventure and Dayton, Xavier seized the NIT. This was the first postseason championship won by any Ohio Division I school.
In 1961, McCafferty led Xavier for their first appearance in the NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament. On March 14, 1961, Xavier fell to Morehead State in the Kentucky State Fairgrounds in Louisville, Kentucky.
McCafferty was replaced as head coach in 1963. He would be followed by Don Ruberg (1963–67), George Krajack (1967–71), Dick Campbell (1971–73) and Tay Baker (1973–79).
Back in 1979, Xavier was among the charter members of the Midwestern City Conference (known as the MCC or Midwestern City 6, also currently known as the Horizon League), which also included Butler, Evansville, Loyola (Chicago), Oklahoma City, and Oral Roberts. That year also marked the hiring of head coach Bob Staak, that gathered an 88–86 list during his six seasons as head coach, including a return to both the NCAA Tournament and NIT.