Marcus Foster went up and threw down a vicious dunk off an alley-oop. That is how this contest started, and really how much of this game felt for St. John’s
Creighton controlled St. John’s from the get-go, dropping the Johnnies by a 85-72 score. They quieted a rather lively Carnesecca crowd on multiple occasions.
The Bluejays are known as a shooting team, but for much of the game they dominated the Johnnies down low. Creighton scored 28 of their 44 first half points in the paint.
Greg McDermott’s bunch got to the hoop in array of ways in the first half.