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Creighton's Early Spurt Eliminates Butler In Quarterfinals

Marcus Zegarowski scored a team-high 18 points in the Bluejays' win over Butler.

Do you think Butler has had enough of Creighton?

Five days after the Bluejays closed out the regular season with a convincing 20-point win over the Bulldogs last Saturday, the basketball gods brought the two programs together again for a quarterfinal matchup in the BIG EAST Tournament. And well, the outcome got no better for Butler.

Creighton took the fight right to the Bulldogs again, scoring the game’s first seven points and building first-half leads as large as 18 points before keeping Butler well at bay in the second half as the Bluejays overwhelmed Butler, 87-56, at Madison Square Garden Thursday night.