The date was May 25th, 2014. Creighton had just come off of back-to-back wins in the BIG EAST tournament as the number one seed, downing Xavier 9-2 and Seton Hall 2-1. In a double elimination set up, the Jays were forced to play the Musketeers a second time for the championship – the tournament was set up for a winner-take-all final game instead of opting for a more sensible approach that the team from the loser’s bracket needed to win twice to take home a trophy and a regional bid.
Creighton was 14-4 in conference and ran roughshod over their competition, failing to lose a single conference series.