The peculiarly named IUPUI, sometimes mockingly pronounced “Ooey-Pooey”, is the second of two Summit League teams on Creighton’s non-conference slate this year. The Jays defeated their conference mates Western Illinois 97-67 two weeks ago; WIU was picked 9th out of 9 teams in the league before the season, and IUPUI was picked 6th.
The Jaguars are 3-8 overall and 1-7 away from home, with the lone win coming in Terre Haute against the Indiana State Sycamores. Their record is a bit deceiving, as they took Marquette to OT in Milwaukee before losing 75-71, they took Georgia State to OT in Atlanta before losing 78-72, they played #11 Purdue close for 3/4 of the game in West Lafayette (trailing by single digits most of the game, and were down just eight points with 13 minutes to play before the Boilermakers blew them out late), and they led by nine at the half at Missouri State before the Bears overtook them in the second half.