Before the game started Marcus Foster was brought out to half court and handed a basketball that commemorated the 1,000th point in his collegiate basketball career. This seemed to set some sort of ‘tone’ for how he’d play in the first half of this game, as he poured in 13 of the first 16 points for Creighton.
The energy on the defensive end was pretty stout for the Jays. One may be worried about the gigantic human the Zips placed under the basket in Isaiah Johnson, a 6’10 290lb senior, but the Jays’ double team kept him from making much noise, He committed many turnovers and looked out of sorts when Toby Hegner and Justin Patton/Martin Krampelj put their armpits into his grill.