Huskers Fall To Creighton

However, it was not enough as the Huskers fell to to the Bluejays, 83-67. The Bluejays enter the game with records of 5-3 Straight Up (SU) and 3-4 Against The Spread (ATS).

“I nearly regret not doing it sooner, I don’t think it was a strategy that was a bad idea”, Nebraska coach Tim Miles said. With just five games left before conference play, each of these matchups mean more and more to a Utah group hungry to make a mark in the Pac 12. Maurice Watson Jr. added 14 points for CU. Nebraska’s leading scorer Andrew White insists the Cornhuskers were not looking ahead to Creighton before the 10-point win against Abilene Christian.

The Bluejays are hoping to rebound after their 68-65 loss to Loyola Chicago on Saturday. Helping to facilitate the quick start was freshman Khyri Thomas. Shields didn’t get a shot off the first 10 minutes, and that was an air ball, and didn’t score until he stole a lazy pass by Ronnie Harrell and drove for a layup.

Nebraska chipped away at the lead and was down just 36-30 at intermission. “Definitely when we made that run, we thought we got our juices flowing a little bit and we would put ourselves in a good position to play well going forward”. Groselle had three baskets in that span, which also included treys from Zierden and Toby Hegner. Who knows, maybe we will even get a taste of some overtime (wishful thinking much?). “And I did.” White’s performance did make Miles happy, as the transfer from Kansas scored 30 points and grabbed seven rebounds in the win. “We did not start the second half well against Arizona State and that was a big difference in the game so the fact that we were able to flip was really key for us”.

Nebraska’s next game is at home against Rhode Island on December 13th.

The Bluejays (6-3) have won 10 straight home regular-season meetings with the Huskers (6-4), with their only loss to them in Omaha the last 20 years coming in the 2004 NIT. Bluejays have won 14 of past 17 regular-season games in the series.

Creighton is 2-4 ATS in its last 6 games. Those kinds of threats are always very valuable … even if no one else outside of those two are averaging in double figures. Greg McDermott moved into sole possession of fifth place on Creighton’s all-time wins list with his 127th victory, passing Eddie Hickey…

The easy shots in the paint helped Creighton shoot 51.9 percent from the field for the game.

Creighton is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing Nebraska.