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After witnessing their 43-game home conference win streak come to an end in a 73-68 loss to St. Louis on Wednesday night at Cintas Center, I am starting to wonder if the Xavier Musketeers are even going to be in the field of 68 when the NCAA Tournament tips off in mid-March.

The Musketeers, who were ranked as high as No. 8 in the nation earlier in the season, has now gone 5-7 over their last 12 games including lackadaisical losing efforts over their last two versus Dayton and the Bilikens.

Jerry Palm of CBSSports.com projected Xavier as a No. 11 seed in his most recent projections, but if they continue down their current path their bubble may be popped quickly.

Despite big wins early against the likes of Georgia, Vanderbilt, Purdue, Butler, and Cincinnati, Xavier has struggled in Atlantic 10 Play. Now they have the daunting task of hitting the road for a rare three-game stretch with trips to UNC-Charlotte, George Washington and Memphis ahead.

They have 10 games left in the regular season, including nine conference tilts. Amongst those games are five matchups against teams that are ahead of them in the A-10 standings. If the team were to drop six of 10 games or more down the stretch and have a mediocre effort in the A-10 tomorrow they will be on the outside looking in come Selection Sunday.

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The Cincinnati Bearcats (15-4, 5-1) continued their hot play by coming up a with a huge conference road win on Wednesday night at Connecticut, 70-67.  It was a huge win for Mick Cronin and his team and takes them to 5-1 inside the Big East for the first time since joining the conference.

“It’s a big win for us," Cronin said. "But you’ve got to win these kinds of games if you’re going to compete for the Big East championship.”

Next up the Bearcats is another road tilt at West Virginia on Saturday before they welcome top-ranked Syracuse to Fifth Third Arena in a Big Monday matchup.

Check out some of these developing trends for UC (courtesy Lance McAlister):

--UC has won 10 of last 11 overall
--5-1 Road
--UConn was 10-0 home this season
--Won 7 row on road in Big East
--Won 3 straight road vs Top 25 teams (1st x 1998-99)
--6-2 in last 8 vs Top 25
--5-1 Big East for first time since joining
--UC had 6 turnovers vs UConn
--Turnovers last eight games: 9,8,8,9,6,9,3,6  (Total: 58)
--Opp last eight games: 18,17,17,13,19,17,17,11 (Total: 129)

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Bill Koch pointed out an interesting trend going on in the Big East so far. Pittsburgh, the defending regular-season champion, is 0-4. Perennial powers Louisville (1-3) and Villanova (1-4) are off to rough starts. Meanwhile, UC is in third place at 3-1 behind second-place Seton Hall at 4-1. It made me take a closer look at the early standings (thur 1/12) from the basketball super conference:

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Don’t look now but since the Crosstown Shootout turned in the Crosstown Brawl, the Cincinnati Bearcats have won eight of nine contests, including a huge conference road victory over the 11th-ranked Georgetown Hoyas on Monday night.

That's the second road win against a ranked team already early in the conference season as they also won on the road vs. Pitt on New Year's Day. If the Bearcats can keep it rolling for the next two weeks they will take a huge leg up in conference positioning as they host Villanova then have back-to-back road tilts against Connecticut and West Virginia before welcoming Syracuse, who is currently ranked No. 1 in both the AP and Coaches Poll.

Here's a look at their recent run of success:

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After blocking seven shots in Kentucky’s 79-64 conference season-opening win over South Carolina, Wildcat freshman Anthony Davis continues to march towards rewriting Kentucky record books.

His 4.6 block per game average leads the nation and puts him on pace to shatter the school record for blocks in a season, currently shared by Melvin Turpin and Andre Riddick in the 1982-1983 and 1993-1994 seasons, respectively.  Their record stands at 83.  With 74 blocks Davis is already well on his way to the throne.

While there is no doubt he’s going to break the season mark over the next couple of games barring injury, it is becoming apparent that Davis already could be considered the greatest blocker in the Wildcats’ storied history.

At his current rate he’ll crack the top 10 career list as a freshman:

Blocks - UK Career Leaders
1. Jamaal Magloire (268)
2. Melvin Turpin (226)
3. Sam Bowie (218)
4. Andre Riddick (212)
5. Perry Stevenson (159)
6. Jules Camara (155)
7. Patrick Patterson (152)
8. Marquis Estill (143)
9. Tayshaun Prince (142)
10. Nazr Mohammed (135)

The real question is going to be is will he stay around long enough to get the career record. A second healthy season would likely ensure his name being etched in the school’s record book.

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