When the schedule was released last fall, there was one game in particular that stuck out like a sore thumb — DII Bemidji State on a Tuesday night in mid-February? It’s an ugly duckling of a game, for sure, with season ticket holders charged full price for a glorified exhibition game smack dab in the middle of Big East action, and Fox so enamored with it that they’ve shoved it to the wilderness of FS2.
But as gameday approaches, there’s benefits to this game that were not apparent (or predicatable) in September.
This is an opportunity for Creighton’s young players to gain confidence against an overmatched opponent, the way buy games in November often do, but at a point in the season where that’s usually impossible.