While the city of Omaha will be posted up in one corner and the state of Ohio will be in the other, two opposing players in Creighton senior guard Denzel Mahoney and Ohio junior point guard Jason Preston will have a different “O” in the back of their minds in Monday night’s NCAA Tournament second round matchup at Hinkle Fieldhouse.
Preston attended Boone High School in Orlando, Florida. Mahoney starred at Hagerty High School about 25 minutes away in Oviedo. Now both are eager to share college basketball’s biggest stage with each other.
“We’ve been talking a lot this past year,” Mahoney said.