Inside the Box:
Creighton’s big three of Mitch Ballock, Ty-Shon Alexander and Marcus Zegarowski were absolutely massive on a night where they had to be nothing short of that. They combined for 54 of the team’s 89 points, and were a combined 17-of-30 from the floor and 7-of-16 from three-point range. They grabbed 17 combined rebounds. And Alexander in particular simply put his head down and drove straight to the rim to force the issue. He was 13-of-15 from the line.
“They were really stretched out to our shooters and the lane was open,” Greg McDermott said on his postgame radio show.