Creighton hosts NAIA Midland University on Saturday in their last non-conference game before Big East action begins. The Warriors hail from nearby Fremont, Nebraska (for those of our readers not totally familiar with the area, Fremont is roughly an hour northwest of Omaha) and hope to keep things more competitive than the first in-state battle the Jays had this year. Ahem.
That doesn’t seem likely. Midland isn’t just an NAIA team, they’re a not particularly good NAIA team. They bring a 3-8 record into the game, and their only other contest against a D1 opponent ended badly — a 72-53 exhibition loss at Nebraska-Omaha on Nov.