Reeves was sidelined with a head injury the last time Providence and Creighton met. He watched like the rest of us as his former AAU teammate David Duke went nuts — scoring 36 points in a game PC had to have felt like they deserved to win in Omaha. Duke made 6-8 from beyond the arc that afternoon, and his two free throws put PC ahead by five with 1:40 to play before Creighton pulled it out late.
There was no sweating out the final minutes of the rematch. Not with the Friars shooting the way they did in the second half.