Austin Swartz hit a bounce shot with 30 seconds to go in time beyond regulation, lifting Creighton to an 86-83 win over Georgetown on Tuesday in Omaha, Neb.
Swartz completed 33 factors, together with seven in time beyond regulation, guiding the Bluejays (11-7, 5-2 Large East) previous the Hoyas (9-8, 1-5).
Georgetown led 76-73 in regulation earlier than Swartz tied the sport with a 3-pointer with 19 seconds remaining.
An alley-oop dunk by Georgetown’s Langston Love on the second-half buzzer was initially dominated to be the game-winner. Nevertheless, after a video evaluation, the referees determined the ball left Love’s hand too late, sending the competition to time beyond regulation.
Malik Mack scored 17 factors and Julius Halaifonua added 16 for Georgetown.
The sport was tight all through till the Hoyas broke a tie with a 7-0 run late within the second half. Halaifonua, Caleb Williams and KJ Lewis all scored on layups. Lewis was fouled on his shot and accomplished the three-point play to present Georgetown a 74-67 lead with 3:39 to go.
Josh Dix, who had 15 for Creighton, lower the result in three with 1:05 left to arrange Swartz’s tying shot.
The Hoyas used a 10-0 run halfway by way of the primary half to take a 10-point lead, however the Bluejays went on a 14-2 run to finish the half with the lead.
Trailing 36-26 with 3:07 to go, Swartz and Dix hit 3-pointers to chop the Georgetown result in 36-32 with 1:32 left.
Nik Graves then scored on a layup and accomplished a three-point play to chop the result in one.
Swartz completed the half by nailing one other 3-pointer to present Creighton a 38-36 lead on the break.
The sport was tied with simply over 10 minutes to go within the half when Malik Mack sank a layup to start out the 10-0 run.
Caleb Williams and Lewis adopted with back-to-back 3-pointers, and Halaifonua scored in a layup for a 32-22 Georgetown lead.
Each groups have been sizzling from the ground within the first half as Georgetown hit 15 of 27 photographs (56%) and Creighton made 15-of-29 (52%).
Mack led Georgetown with 11 factors on 5-of-7 capturing within the first half. Graves led the Bluejays with 10 factors on 4-of-8 capturing from the ground earlier than the break.
–Area Stage Media
