The Xavier Musketeers men's basketball team represents Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. The school's team currently competes in the Atlantic 10 Conference. The Musketeers are currently coached by Chris Mack, in his third season after being both an assistant coach and former player at Xavier.
Over the past 15 years, Xavier has continued to separate itself as one of the country's premier college basketball programs. Xavier made its seventh straight NCAA Tournament appearance in 2012 and its eleventh in the last 12 years.
Xavier made its 24th postseason appearance in the last 28 years, including its 20th NCAA Tournament berth during that time. XU only made the NCAA Tournament field one time (1961) before the 1982-83 season.
Xavier, with a school record 30-7 for the 2007-08 season and 27-8 for the 2008-09 season, has recorded five straight 20-win seasons and 13 in the last 14 years. XU has won 25 games or more each of the last four years.
Xavier has won four Atlantic 10 Tournament Championships in its first 15 seasons in the A-10 (1998, 2002, 2004 and 2006). Xavier has won or shared 15 regular season conference championships over the last 28 years(eight A-10 and seven MCC), while winning 10 conference tournament championships (four A-10 and six MCC).
Xavier is one of only two non-BCS schools to be listed among the top-20 most valuable college basketball programs in the US.
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Stephen Dunn (b. 1939)