Creighton Game thread

[muskieman]

NO. 19/18 CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY BLUEJAYS (16-7, 7-5 BIG EAST)
SATURDAY, 12:30 P.M. ET CINTAS CENTER

Television: FOX national, including FOX 19 in Cincinnati, with play-by-play from Tim Brando and analysis from Robbie Hummel.
Radio: 700 WLW-AM and National Radio: ESPN Radio with Mike Couzens and Bob Valvano

Both teams are 7-5 in the conference a win for X means 4th place

This is Hall of Fame Weekend for Xavier Athletics. Xavier will induct six new members into the Xavier Athletic Hall of Fame for basketball Trevon Bluiett and J.P. Macura

[Kevin Reilly]

Hey Muskie man how are you healing? Hope you are on the mend.

[muskieman]

Hey Muskie man how are you healing? Hope you are on the mend.

healing great. Some of the complications are gone, but some remain. Ready for a win. X needs to play their best D of the year as CU scores on everyone, even in losses. BTW thanks for asking

[Kevin Reilly]

Good start for the offense. Running and moving the ball. Like to see one of their big three get in foul trouble. It would be a good time for Ousmane to not pick up his two careless fouls. We need him to play 30 minutes . Great atmosphere.

[Kevin Reilly]

Ciani is getting killed. He needs help from the guards. Claude is not keeping his man in front of him which is causing easy baskets.

[Kevin Reilly]

Kalkbren is deadly on the pick and roll . Need to keep pressure on the ball and get in his way when he rolls to the basket.

[muskieman]

Good start for the offense. Running and moving the ball. Like to see one of their big three get in foul trouble. It would be a good time for Ousmane to not pick up his two careless fouls. We need him to play 30 minutes . Great atmosphere.

He almost got the second foul on that face slap

[Kevin Reilly]

As good as Claude has been on offense he has been equally bad on defense. who ever he covers blows right by him. Need to play harder on Kalbrenner.

[muskieman]

As good as X looked in the first half of the half they looked bad or worse in the second half. Lead went away, and we now have to look at a second-half deficit to begin the half. X needs to solve the K pick and roll and needs ways to score the ball on their end. Laz and Nemo looked good together on D but need to be productive on the offense side.

[Kevin Reilly]

Kalkbrener is taking over the game on offense and defense. Rough finish to the half. if we don't figure out how to stop Kalkbrenner on the pick and roll we don't stand much of a chance. I can't believe we are down by 9 at half with Alexander doing nothing. Maybe a zone but it's to easy for Kalkbrenner with us playing man to man.