OMAHA, Neb. -- Creighton is playing a game Saturday because the Bluejays were told they had to.
The Bluejays were required by Big East Conference officials to schedule a game Saturday so that all 10 teams in the league had less than a 48-hour turnaround before Monday's Big East Marathon for Martin Luther King Day.
That's how Division II Truman State from Kirksville, Mo., landed on Creighton's schedule for a 12 p.m. CST tipoff at CenturyLink Center.
Eight Big East schools were already scheduled to play conference games while Georgetown had a scheduled non-conference matchup against Connecticut.