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Xavier Musketeers lead trainer Travis Steele looks on in the principal half of the NCAA men's b-ball game between the Xavier Musketeers and the Providence Friars, Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022, at Cintas Center in Cincinnati. (Photograph: Albert Cesare/The Enquirer) 사설토토

Now and then the outcome can be puzzling - play ineffectively, similar to Xavier did at DePaul, and win; play well, similar to Steele felt his group did against Providence, and lose.

"I felt like we played a ton better (against Providence), sadly, we didn't emerge on the right half of things," said Steele. "However, we will get up tomorrow, we will go right back at it, we will get ready very much like we typically do ... To prepare our folks to beat Creighton on Saturday."

With the new staggers, Xavier's currently where the Musketeers have something to demonstrate, and perhaps that is not the most terrible spot to be, but rather it can likewise be an awkward position.

Having something to demonstrate may move Xavier and spur the Musketeers to refocus, or it will not and the following a month and a half will be disappointing and collapsing.

That places a premium on each game the remainder of the way.

February's dependably a significant month and it will be for Xavier. Indeed, even after two straight misfortunes, the Musketeers are as yet in a decent situation at No. 21 in the NET (the NCAA's essential assessment device for postseason determination), and Xavier's next three games - at Creighton, at home against Butler and DePaul - are altogether winnable, yet the Musketeers need to wake up from what's presently keeping them down.

The sluggish beginnings can't proceed. Xavier's demonstrated it can battle its direction once again into games, yet the Musketeers are making it more distressing than it should be by getting down early many a game.

"We can't set down on the mat," Steele said.

At least a couple of times Steele's brought up that a season is a long distance race, not a run. The race is warming up, however, and the Musketeers need to get a move on or hazard getting passed.