A dark basketball season pockmarked by three pandemic pauses and multiple injuries — but also lit by five double-digit comebacks — has ended for the Butler Bulldogs.
No. 2 seed Creighton shot 62.5% and sank 13 3-pointers, crushing Butler for the second time in six nights en route to an 87-56 victory in a quarterfinal of the Big East tournament Thursday in New York.
Creighton (19-7) moved on to semifinal to play the winner of Thursday’s late quarterfinal between No. 3 seed Connecticut and No. 11 seed DePaul.
Butler was trying to be the lowest (worst) seed to reach the semifinals since Villanova did so as a No.