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Chatelain: Bluejays need to plug gap on defense
Premium ContentClick on Premium Content on the Featured navigation bar for information.Start with the bright side. You will not find back-to-back college basketball games more exciting than Creighton's wins against Long Beach State and Evansville. Two buzzer-beating heart-stoppers 72 hours apart in the same building? Are you kidding? It's a blessed year to be a Bluejay season-ticket holder.
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Pivovar: No shocker if Ragland nets MVP
Premium ContentClick on Premium Content on the Featured navigation bar for information.My vote for player of the year in the Missouri Valley Conference goes to ... Wichita State's Joe Ragland. Save the angry emails and calls, Bluejay Nation. The Valley prohibits the four voters from each school (coach, two media members and sports information director) from selecting players on the team they are associated with. So even though I believe that Creighton's Doug McDermott should, and will, win the award, I can't vote for him.
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Valley Notes: Ford looks for ways to narrow gap
Premium ContentClick on Premium Content on the Featured navigation bar for information.It's been a long, difficult season for Bradley and first-year coach Geno Ford. The Braves dropped to 7-23 and 2-15 in the Missouri Valley after Wednesday's loss to Northern Iowa. Bradley has won just twice in 20 games since Dec. 15. Ford won 68 games at Kent State and made it to postseason play in each of his three seasons there. He took over a program that was already short on talent before losing two-year starter Will Egolf to an offseason knee injury.
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Pivovar's Missouri Valley rankings, Feb. 23
Premium ContentClick on Premium Content on the Featured navigation bar for information.World-Herald staff writer Steven Pivovar ranks the Missouri Valley men's basketball teams (with rankings from RealTimeRPI.com). Published Thursday, Feb. 23.
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Jays survive Ryan, Aces
Josh Jones wasn't going to let his buddy down Tuesday night. Jones buried a jumper with 22.8 seconds to play in overtime, and Creighton hung on to post a 93-92 Missouri Valley victory over a scrappy Evansville team that threatened to ruin Senior Night for Jones' longtime friend, Antoine Young. “I've known Antoine since fifth grade,” Jones said. “I needed him to go away with this (win). You don't want the last memory for someone you care about so much to be something so...
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Ryan's 43 not enough against Jays
Premium ContentClick on Premium Content on the Featured navigation bar for information.With 2˝ minutes left in regulation Tuesday night, Creighton trailed Evansville 79-75. Colt Ryan came off a down screen, caught the ball 18 feet from the basket and buried a fadeaway jumper, his 38th and 39th points of the night. Ryan usually doesn't reveal emotion on the floor. This time, he couldn't help himself. He raised his index finger to his lips, sending a message to the Creighton crowd.
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Notes: Rally helps Jays avoid costly blot
Premium ContentClick on Premium Content on the Featured navigation bar for information.Creighton avoided what could have been a second costly blot on its résumé with Tuesday night's 93-92 overtime victory over Evansville. The Purple Aces, with an NCAA RPI ranking of 152, came oh-so-close to posting their second win in a two-week span over the Bluejays. While that probably wouldn't keep Creighton out of the NCAA tournament, it's not the type of thing that the basketball committee would kindly on when seeding the event.
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Antoine Young hopes recent heroics help Jays achieve goal
Premium ContentClick on Premium Content on the Featured navigation bar for information.Too many times these days, a college basketball player's legacy is defined by four letters: NCAA. How a player is ultimately remembered by a fan base often is tied to whether he got his team to college basketball's grandest stage in March. Especially if that player is a point guard, such as Creighton's Antoine Young. Young knew that coming into his senior season.
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Shatel: Forget numbers; Bluejays in fine feather again
Premium ContentClick on Premium Content on the Featured navigation bar for information.One week later, it wouldn't appear much has changed for the Creighton Bluejays. The NCAA RPI is 28. Bracketology projection: still a No. 6 seed. Beating Long Beach State was impressive, but didn't move the needle. And yet everything has changed for the Jays. They got their mojo back, baby. Creighton showed up for work Monday with a whole new outlook on life — that is, life in March.
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No comment by CU officials after arrest
Creighton officials continued to have no comment Monday on the status of women's basketball assistant coach Carrie Moore. Moore was arrested by Bellevue police early Sunday on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. Creighton didn't practice Monday, taking its required one day off per week. Coach Jim Flanery said he could not comment on Moore's status. "It's out of my hands,'' he said.
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Creighton men fall to Idaho
Creighton’s Billy Paluch defeated Idaho’s Marius Cirstea 6-3, 6-1 at No. 1 singles on Monday, but the CU men’s tennis team fell 4-3. The Jays dropped to 3-2.
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