Halftime: Xavier 37 Pittsburgh 29

Xavier heads into the locker room with a lead. Pittsburgh heads into the locker room with an upset point guard.
There was a scuffle in front of the Xavier bench as the teams headed off the court for the break, with the Xavier players jubilantly yelling about their eight point advantage and Levance Fields taking umbridge at the statements.
Few things:
-Fr. Graham is down here celebrating with the band at the moment.
-I am sitting in front of Bill Murray
As for the game:
-The key so far has been Xavier's ability to neutralize and defend DeJuan Blair. The big man has two points on 1-5 shooting as Xavier has doubled him and frustrated him in the post, poking away offensive rebounds from his grasp.
-The key to stopping Blair's scoring is limiting him on the glass, where he only has four rebounds--two offensive. Xavier has a 16-14 lead in offensive boards, and 8-5 on the offensive glass--two categories that they were only hoping to hang close to Pitt.
-Pitt has been squandering plenty of opportunities with turnovers. They have turned the ball over seven times to Xavier's three. They are not your garden variety travels or tossing the ball into traffic, but making the type of passes that almost crack a reporter's laptop in half (seriously). Xavier expected to be dominated in this category as well, and are getting continued great play from their point guard spot of Jackson and Holloway (2 dazzling assists).
-The one bugaboo for Xavier that has held has been their inability stop dribble penetration. Xavier has let Young (11 pts.), Fields (10 pts.) and Dixon (2 pts.) into the lane a handful of times.
-Pitt has been slowed down some in transition, save a string of five possesions where they were able to run and get six easy points.
-Derrick Brown is playing like an NBA player. 10 pts including a dunk over Blair and two deep threes.

That's all for now. Check back after the game.