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 Rob Diggs and the Colonials take on No. 9 Xavier Saturday night in Ohio. |
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Men's Basketball Faces No. 9 Xavier Saturday at 7 p.m.
Feb. 29, 2008
Complete Game Notes in PDF Format 
Game 24 • Atlantic 10 Conference game
Date: Saturday, Mar. 1, 2008 • Time: 7:00 pm ET
Location: Cintas Center (10,250) • Cincinnati, OH
Radio: FederalNewsRadio.com 1050 AM (Byron Kerr)
Internet: live pay-per-view on GW All Access, live stats on GameTracker
TV: CSTVR Networks, CN8 (Tom Hart, Steve Wolf)
Series: Xavier leads, 21-9 (Xavier leads, 5-1 at Cintas Center)
GW COACH: Karl Hobbs (Connecticut `85)
Record at GW: 123-79 (.609) 7th season
Atlantic 10 Record: 64-45 (.587) 7th season
Career Record: 123-79 (.609) 7th season
Hobbs' Record vs. Xavier: 2-11
XAVIER COACH: Sean Miller (Pittsburgh `92)
Record at XU: 87-36 (.707) 4th season
Atlantic 10 Record: 43-18 (.705) 4th season
Career Record: 87-36 (.707) 4th season
Miller's Record vs. GW: 4-1
Saturday's Game: Winners of three straight and coming off perhaps it best performance of the season, GW (9-14, 5-8) faces No. 9/11 Xavier (24-4, 12-1) for the second meeting this season and the 31st meeting in the series. GW fell to the Musketeers, 74-66, on Jan. 19 in Washington. That loss snapped a seven-game home winning streak at Smith Center.
• Xavier has won six of the last seven meetings and 11 of the last 13.
• GW is 1-10 on the road this season while Xavier is 14-1 at home.
• Xavier is the first Top 10 team GW has faced since losing to No. 1 Duke in the second round of the 2006 NCAA Tournament on March 18, 2006.
• GW is coming off an 85-68 triumph over Rhode Island Wednesday at Smith Center. Noel Wilmore was white-hot from downtown as he hit 7-9 three-pointers en route to his career-high 24 points. Damian Hollis added 22 points as GW scored its season-high 85 points.
• Xavier has been idle for a week after defeating Dayton, 57-51, Sunday at UD Arena. The Musketeers have won 10 straight, a string that began at Smith Center on Jan. 19.
• GW is 1-5 at Cintas Center where the Musketeers are 104-16 (.867) in eight seasons.
• GW's lone victory at Cintas Center came on Feb. 2, 2006 in a come-from-behind 89-85 triumph.
• GW is without starting point guard Travis King, who is sitting out the season with a knee injury.
• GW has won 54 of its last 77 regular-season games and 32 of its last 45 A-10 games.
A Closer Look at Xavier... Xavier enters play Saturday with a 24-4 overall record, 12-1 in the A-10. Xavier has five players averaging double figure points and a sixth player averaging 9.9 ppg. Senior F Josh Duncan leads the Musketeers with 11.6 ppg followed by Drew Lavender's 11.2 ppg and league-leading 2.51 assist-to-turnover ratio. Soph. F Derrick Brown leads the team in rebounding with 6.7 rpg while B.J. Raymond has hit 66 three-pointers (.426). For the season, Xavier is shooting 47.9 percent from the field, averages 76.5 points a game and is outrebounding opponents by nearly six caroms a game. All of those stats are down slightly since the Jan. 19 meeting in Washington. Xavier leads the A-10 in five team categories including scoring margin at +14.2 and assist-to-turnover ratio at 1.20.
Next Game: GW travels to Charlotte to face the 49ers on Thursday, Mar. 6 at 8:00 p.m. (EST). That game will be televised regionally on CSTV Networks, including CN8 in the Washington metro area, and broadcast on 3WT Radio 107.7 FM, 1500 AM, 820 AM.
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