The crowd was rabid. The whistles were frequent. The miscues were costly. Through all of the chaos on the court on Friday night, it was a couple of freshmen who shined the brightest for the Creighton Bluejays in a 79-67 win over Memphis Tigers team that hadn’t been an easy out for anybody since the calendar flipped to February.
In front of just over 7,000 “blue-blooded” diehard fans packed into the lower bowl of the CHI Health Center Omaha, freshman point guard Marcus Zegarowski and fellow rookie forward Christian Bishop carried Creighton with their poise in the noise.