Jays score enormous win over UCONN

Publishers Date: 21' January ' 2024

Creighton wins huge at home over UCONN-Creighton Sports

OMAHA, Neb. — Without precedent for school history the No. 15 Creighton men's ball group got a success over the top group in the country, disturbing No. 1 Connecticut 85-66 on Tuesday, February 20. The success was the 600th profession triumph for Creighton lead trainer Greg McDermott.

The Bluejays moved to 20-7 generally and 11-5 in Huge EAST play, securing its 10th consecutive 20-win season and 24th in the beyond 26 missions. Connecticut tumbled to 24-3 on the season and 14-2 in gathering activity, as its association record tying 14-game dominate streak in Large EAST play was snapped.

Connecticut got off to a quick beginning with a 7-0 beginning in the initial 90 seconds and held a 11-3 edge with 15:51 appearance on the clock. Getting back to the court after the principal media break, Creighton shut the casing with a 40-18 flood throughout the following 15 minutes.

Creighton's blame began for a 5-0 burst lit by a dunk from Ryan Kalkbrenner, trailed by a three-pointer from Three pointer Alexander to make it 11-8. Showing the battle anticipated from the shielding public hero, Connecticut avoided the Bluejays at all costs. Down 23-21 Steven Ashworth took over with 13 of the following 18 focuses as the Bluejays held onto a 39-25 benefit.

Jasen Green began the flood with his most memorable profession three-pointer to give Creighton its most memorable lead, then, at that point, Kalkbrenner tossed down a dunk to make it 26-23. From that point Ashworth's 13-point blast was just hindered by a dunk from Connecticut's Donovan Clingan. Ashworth shut the principal half with 16 focuses as the Bluejays took a 43-29 lead into the storage space.

Creighton's force brought through the break as Ashworth depleted another three-ball, then, at that point, Bricklayer Mill operator dropped in a layup to drive the brink to 48-

29. The edge developed to as much as 21 focuses at 55-34 with 17:15 left on Three pointer Alexander's three-pointer from the highest point of the key. Later in the edge one more dunk by Kalkbrenner and Green's second three pointer of the night gave the Bluejays a 23-point swell (69-46) with a little more than 10 minutes left.

Connecticut replied with a 10-0 run over its own and pulled with 10 focuses at 74-64 as the game moved to the last media break with 4:29 leftover.

Down the stretch the Bluejays showed their strength with a 11-2 rush to close the game, getting the primary success over a highest level crew blade seven attempts.

Ashworth drove four Bluejays in twofold figures with 20 places, his eleventh consecutive game in twofold figures. Alexander got done with 16 focuses, Kalkbrenner conveyed 15 and Scheierman posted 12 focuses.

Connecticut got a game-high 27 focuses from Tristen Newton, while Clingan conveyed 12 focuses and Stephon Palace wrapped up with 10 places.