March 13, 2025 • 4 mins
Shortly after Xavier's loss to Marquette in the Big East Tournament, "Mr. College Basketball," Paul Fritschner, joined us from Madison Square Garden.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Standing by at Madison Square Garden, where I'm sure he
has better things to do than wait for me to
call him. Is mister college basketball working for the Big East.
Part of the Shawn Miller Podcast, Our buddy Paul Frischner.
Xavier loses to Marquette, a heartbreaker for the Musketeers eighty
nine to eighty seven. Paul, does it feel like that
Xavier's bubble went burst today?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I don't think so. I think there is still a
chance that Xavier finds themselves on the right side of
the bubble on Sunday. The problem is now that it's
going to be a long seventy six hours of waiting
to see do the big Steelers do the other big teams?
Do the teams that they need to lose? Do all
of them lose? I mean, you know, right now you're
watching Texas and Texas A and M. That game's going
(00:40):
on right now. North Carolina will play Duke tomorrow and
Duke's all banged up. After what we saw there today,
you probably need Duke to win that game for North
Carolina to feel on the wrong side of the bubble.
But you know the other part of it, MO is
that Indiana they lost their game, and some of these
teams that Davier needed to lose have already lost. So
(01:00):
it's going to be up to the teams that should
win their conference tournaments, you know, VCU Memphis going out
there and taking care of business, and then can they
avoid somebody else from a major conference pulling an NC
state from last year.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
This game swung for me. It was not over by
any stretch of the imagination. And correct me if I'm wrong.
The lead early in the second half got up to fourteen.
I think there's just over thirteen to go. They're up nine.
Freemantle and Conwell and Ryan Conwell was awesome today. They
both sit, neither with foul trouble, just for a rest,
(01:35):
and within two minutes, Marquette cuts the lead from nine
to two. And I felt like at that point we
were in for a dogfight. That felt like the turning
point of the game. Would you agree, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I definitely did. And in that situation, it's hard to fall.
Trying to give your two best players, you know, an
extra minute of rests going into that under twelve media timeout.
You're trying to just sneak them an extra minute because
then you get that two minute and forty five second break,
so you're basically giving them five minutes on the bench
there that you're able to catch your breath and kind
of get your feet under you going into the home
(02:06):
stretch of the game. But it didn't pay off today, right,
And and Conwell and Fremantle sitting at the same time
allowed favor to there are a lot rather allowed Marquette
to get back into it and from there. Yeah, and
there are just a lot of different points in the game.
Ode I think overarching the turnovers eighteen to two Marquette
and points off turnovers, that's just a really, really hard
(02:28):
number to overcome.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Marquette scored made eight of their last ten field goals.
Was that Marquette executing at a high end offensively or
Xavier's defensive issues bubbling to the surface at precisely the
worst time. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I Sean Miller just talked about it a few minutes
ago in a post game press conference, talked about the
defense and how it did kind of let them down
when they needed it today, especially to close the game.
But you look on both sides, the shot making was
going back and forth. Conwell finished the thirty eighth the
most as they've players that ever scored the Big East Tournament.
So I think defensively it just yeah for Xavier, you're
(03:06):
looking at one stop, one extra stop, one stop here
or there, and it's a difference maker, and they couldn't
get it down the stretch. Cam Jones, David Joplin hitting
that three. It was too much.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
There was a sequence late in the game. Xavier didn't
foul a lot in the second half, and so they
had to try to pile up fouls to get in
the bonus to send Marquette to the free throw line.
There was a sequence in there where I think it
was Cam Jones, and I think he runs over Ryan
Conwell right in front of the Xavier bench trying to
catch an inbound pass. At first glance, I think Sean
Miller briefly lost his mind. I think he might have
(03:39):
had a case at an offensive fouls should have been whistled.
Has there been any talk of that play.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
No, nothing after the game on that play. There's been
a lot of talk on social media, but nothing after
the game on that play. I did see that too,
you know, on the on the other end of the court.
It's a kind of a tough view for me in person,
So I want to go back and rewatch it and
see what it was like. But yeah, I mean at
that point, Marquette was up by two. So if that's
a turnover essentially off an offensive sounds daver's going to
have the ball down too, with ten or twelve seconds left,
(04:07):
whatever it was, and an opportunity to tire or win
the game. Yeah, that's potentially a game changing call that
Xavier didn't get. I thought the whistle was a little
you know, strict on both sides in the first half,
and then it loosened up in the second half, and
I mean you saw the way it played out. Zab
had to foul four or five times there down the
stretch just to even get Marquette the bonus.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I know you're doing a ton of work and it's
all awesome, so I cannot thank you for squeezing in
a few minutes and pardon us for being a little
bit late. I had to flirt with a woman on Twitter.
Awesome work. I hope we can talk next week because
that means Xavier's playing and we'll talk about the entire
tournament as well.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Thanks so much, absolutely, thanks about
Standing by at Madison Square Garden, where I'm sure he
has better things to do than wait for me to
call him. Is mister college basketball working for the Big East.
Part of the Shawn Miller Podcast, Our buddy Paul Frischner.
Xavier loses to Marquette, a heartbreaker for the Musketeers eighty
nine to eighty seven. Paul, does it feel like that
Xavier's bubble went burst today?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I don't think so. I think there is still a
chance that Xavier finds themselves on the right side of
the bubble on Sunday. The problem is now that it's
going to be a long seventy six hours of waiting
to see do the big Steelers do the other big teams?
Do the teams that they need to lose? Do all
of them lose? I mean, you know, right now you're
watching Texas and Texas A and M. That game's going
(00:40):
on right now. North Carolina will play Duke tomorrow and
Duke's all banged up. After what we saw there today,
you probably need Duke to win that game for North
Carolina to feel on the wrong side of the bubble.
But you know the other part of it, MO is
that Indiana they lost their game, and some of these
teams that Davier needed to lose have already lost. So
(01:00):
it's going to be up to the teams that should
win their conference tournaments, you know, VCU Memphis going out
there and taking care of business, and then can they
avoid somebody else from a major conference pulling an NC
state from last year.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
This game swung for me. It was not over by
any stretch of the imagination. And correct me if I'm wrong.
The lead early in the second half got up to fourteen.
I think there's just over thirteen to go. They're up nine.
Freemantle and Conwell and Ryan Conwell was awesome today. They
both sit, neither with foul trouble, just for a rest,
(01:35):
and within two minutes, Marquette cuts the lead from nine
to two. And I felt like at that point we
were in for a dogfight. That felt like the turning
point of the game. Would you agree, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I definitely did. And in that situation, it's hard to fall.
Trying to give your two best players, you know, an
extra minute of rests going into that under twelve media timeout.
You're trying to just sneak them an extra minute because
then you get that two minute and forty five second break,
so you're basically giving them five minutes on the bench
there that you're able to catch your breath and kind
of get your feet under you going into the home
(02:06):
stretch of the game. But it didn't pay off today, right,
And and Conwell and Fremantle sitting at the same time
allowed favor to there are a lot rather allowed Marquette
to get back into it and from there. Yeah, and
there are just a lot of different points in the game.
Ode I think overarching the turnovers eighteen to two Marquette
and points off turnovers, that's just a really, really hard
(02:28):
number to overcome.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Marquette scored made eight of their last ten field goals.
Was that Marquette executing at a high end offensively or
Xavier's defensive issues bubbling to the surface at precisely the
worst time. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I Sean Miller just talked about it a few minutes
ago in a post game press conference, talked about the
defense and how it did kind of let them down
when they needed it today, especially to close the game.
But you look on both sides, the shot making was
going back and forth. Conwell finished the thirty eighth the
most as they've players that ever scored the Big East Tournament.
So I think defensively it just yeah for Xavier, you're
(03:06):
looking at one stop, one extra stop, one stop here
or there, and it's a difference maker, and they couldn't
get it down the stretch. Cam Jones, David Joplin hitting
that three. It was too much.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
There was a sequence late in the game. Xavier didn't
foul a lot in the second half, and so they
had to try to pile up fouls to get in
the bonus to send Marquette to the free throw line.
There was a sequence in there where I think it
was Cam Jones, and I think he runs over Ryan
Conwell right in front of the Xavier bench trying to
catch an inbound pass. At first glance, I think Sean
Miller briefly lost his mind. I think he might have
(03:39):
had a case at an offensive fouls should have been whistled.
Has there been any talk of that play.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
No, nothing after the game on that play. There's been
a lot of talk on social media, but nothing after
the game on that play. I did see that too,
you know, on the on the other end of the court.
It's a kind of a tough view for me in person,
So I want to go back and rewatch it and
see what it was like. But yeah, I mean at
that point, Marquette was up by two. So if that's
a turnover essentially off an offensive sounds daver's going to
have the ball down too, with ten or twelve seconds left,
(04:07):
whatever it was, and an opportunity to tire or win
the game. Yeah, that's potentially a game changing call that
Xavier didn't get. I thought the whistle was a little
you know, strict on both sides in the first half,
and then it loosened up in the second half, and
I mean you saw the way it played out. Zab
had to foul four or five times there down the
stretch just to even get Marquette the bonus.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I know you're doing a ton of work and it's
all awesome, so I cannot thank you for squeezing in
a few minutes and pardon us for being a little
bit late. I had to flirt with a woman on Twitter.
Awesome work. I hope we can talk next week because
that means Xavier's playing and we'll talk about the entire
tournament as well.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Thanks so much, absolutely, thanks about
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