The Xavier Musketeers men’s basketball Group Reflects Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The school’s team now competes in the Big East Conference. Of all Division I programs however to create a Final 4, Xavier has the most all-time tournament wins with 27. Xavier has emerged in the NCAA Championship 27 times, 15 times in the previous 17 decades. On March 11, 2018, Xavier earned its first ever 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. Additionally, they have won one Big East Conference regular season title in 2018.
Xavier has been listed among the top-20 most precious college basketball programs in the US.
The first Xavier Basketball match on album was February 20, 1920 in the Fenwick Club at 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. During Crowe’s 10 years since Xavier head coach, Xavier compiled a record of 96–78. Crowe’s 96 wins as a head coach rank fourth all time among Xavier head trainers. [5]
After the 1942–43 season, play was suspended for the subsequent two seasons due to 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 at the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) during the 1948 NAIA National Basketball Tournament, the national tournament for small colleges. Xavier finished in 4th place, dropping to Hamline University at the national third-place game, 58–59. 1948 was the only season Xavier appeared at the NAIA Tournament.
Back in 1951, Hirt was replaced as head coach by Ned Wulk. Wulk guided the Musketeers into National Invitational Tournament appearances in 1956 and 1957. The 1956 look marked Xavier’s first NIT win, an 84–80 success over Saint Louis.
After a loss to Bradley from the 1957 NIT, Wulk was replaced as head trainer by Jim McCafferty. McCafferty led the Musketeers back into some third straight NIT at 1958. With wins over Niagara, Bradley, St. Bonaventure and Dayton, Xavier seized the NIT. That was the very first postseason championship won by almost any Ohio Division I school.
In 1961, McCafferty led Xavier for their original appearance in the NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament. On March 14, 1961, Xavier fell to Morehead State at the Kentucky State Fairgrounds in Louisville, Kentucky.
McCafferty has been 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).
In 1979, Xavier was among those charter members of the Midwestern City Conference (nicknamed the MCC or Midwestern City , and now 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, who compiled an 88–86 list during his six seasons as head coach, including a return to both the NCAA Tournament and NIT.
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