Coach's attitude about SJU game transferred to players

[Il Saggio]

From DD's blog:

"Sean Miller spent as little time in Xavier's locker room after the game as he has all season. Two reasons for that. The first is that it's as hot as hell in that little place, so he had no desire to stick around. The second is that he wasn't all that upset with the game. The result certainly wasn't desired. But Miller said he knew in September when the schedule came out and he saw that Xavier was the final regular-season game in the Fieldhouse that it was going to be hard to win.

[XU84]

At the start of the season I think many of us would have picked that game as a loss on the schedule. If we end the seaon with only two conference loses, then that would have exceeded most predictions. The had part is the way they lost last night especially as the 11th ranked team. I know we're spoiled by the success but I kind of like that.