After spending the last month on the NCAA Tournament bubble, Creighton’s bubble was burst on Thursday in NYC when they dropped a Big East quarterfinal to Xavier 63-61. Their #2 seed in the NIT is a pretty good indicator that they were indeed among the last handful of teams on the outside looking in, which makes that loss — and others like it since the first of the year — all that much more frustrating. They were *close* but *not quite* in so many respects all season. So close to winning five more Big East games than they did.
Pregame Primer: Creighton Set to Take On Former Bluejay Porter Moser’s Loyola Squad in NIT Opener Tonight
