Butler Bulldogs @ Creighton Bluejays

9-14, 8-12 Big East

Final

	1	2	T
Butler BUT	32	41	73
Creighton CREI	46	47	93

Creighton BluejaysCreightonCREI

18-7, 14-6 Big East

Butler Bulldogs

starters
Bryce NzeB. Nze#10
Bryce GoldenB. Golden#33
Chuck HarrisC. Harris#3
Myles TateM. Tate#12
Jair BoldenJ. Bolden#52
bench
Mike ParkerM. Parker#30
Myles WilmothM. Wilmoth#5
John-Michael MulloyJ. Mulloy#35
Christian DavidC. David#25
Campbell DonovanC. Donovan#0
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
11	6	3-7	0-2	0-2	4	1	1	0	1	2	2	1
27	19	8-11	1-3	2-2	2	0	1	0	0	0	2	2
36	29	10-18	3-8	6-7	6	4	3	0	0	0	6	3
32	11	3-6	0-1	5-7	3	4	0	0	0	1	2	4
35	7	2-11	1-7	2-2	2	0	1	1	0	0	2	1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
3	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
28	0	0-2	0-1	0-0	6	0	1	1	1	0	6	4
10	1	0-0	0-0	1-2	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	3
8	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
10	0	0-2	0-2	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	2
	73	26-59	5-26	16-22	29	9	8	3	2	5	24	20
		44%	19%	73%

Creighton Bluejays

starters
Christian BishopC. Bishop#13
Damien JeffersonD. Jefferson#23
Marcus ZegarowskiM. Zegarowski#11
Mitch BallockM. Ballock#24
Denzel MahoneyD. Mahoney#34
bench
Ryan KalkbrennerR. Kalkbrenner#32
Jacob EppersonJ. Epperson#41
Devin DavisD. Davis#22
Sami OsmaniS. Osmani#14
Andrew MerfeldA. Merfeld#12
Shereef MitchellS. Mitchell#4
Jett CanfieldJ. Canfield#10
Antwann JonesA. Jones#0
Alex O'ConnellA. O'Connell#5
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
21	10	5-7	0-0	0-0	10	4	1	0	0	3	7	2
29	12	4-10	2-3	2-7	5	2	0	1	0	0	5	2
32	32	10-12	5-7	7-8	2	0	1	1	0	0	2	3
34	9	3-6	2-4	1-2	8	6	2	0	0	0	8	1
34	15	4-15	3-8	4-4	1	3	0	2	0	0	1	1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
15	7	3-4	0-0	1-2	4	0	0	0	0	4	0	2
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
2	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
2	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
20	4	2-5	0-1	0-0	4	4	1	1	1	0	4	2
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	1
4	2	1-2	0-1	0-0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	2
	93	33-63	12-25	15-23	41	20	8	5	1	10	31	17
		52%	48%	65%

Game Information

Omaha, NE

Referee:Jeff Clark

Referee:Tim Clougherty

Referee:James Breeding

NCAA Division I

Big East Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
UConn	16-2	-	26-3
St. John's	15-2	0.5	22-6
Villanova	13-4	2.5	22-6
Seton Hall	9-8	6.5	19-9
Creighton	8-10	8	14-15
DePaul	7-10	8.5	15-13
Providence	6-11	9.5	13-15
Butler	6-12	10	15-14
Xavier	5-12	10.5	13-15
Georgetown	5-12	10.5	13-15
Marquette	5-12	10.5	10-18

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