Creighton’s season-opening win over Western Illinois was even more uneven than the first game of a season typically is, and outside of the first 10 minutes of the second half where they turned a one-point halftime lead into a game with a little breathing room, they looked every bit the second-division Big East team most prognosticators picked them to be.
“It’s going to be a growing process with this group,” Greg McDermott said in his postgame interview on 1620 The Zone. “They need to get better. And they know it. There’s nothing better from a coaching perspective than to get this on film, break it down, and sit down with the guys to go through it.