ETSU was exactly as advertised on Sunday, as Gregg Marshall protege Steve Forbes’ team hit Creighton with bruising defense and a relentless attack on the glass. They’re the type of team that has given McDermott-Era Bluejay teams fits, and that was certainly the case in this one. Combined with the fact that CU’s rotation remains unsettled, with a roster of players still carving out roles for themselves, and you had what we saw on Sunday: a disjointed mess that put them on upset alert.
Disjointed? You bet. They made 29 substitutions and tried 17 different lineup combinations, trying to find something — anything — that would work.