anyway, so we're playing with house money there (though a blowout at home could bump us down). And we should be able to win the other two without Nixon, though the Pepperdine game does concern me. So if the odds are that we're gonna win 2 of the next 3 with or without Nixon, at least this way we force Baxter into the fire to get more minutes and get ready for the WCC and NCAA tourneys.