It’s good to be Mitch Ballock these days.
If last Saturday wasn’t memorable enough for the Creighton junior marksman, when he dropped five 3-balls on then-No. 8 Villanova in a 76-61 road win for the Bluejays - the first time a BIG EAST team had won at Nova in two years - then Sunday’s Chiefs victory in Super Bowl LIV was most definitely the slam-dunk perfect finish to the weekend for the native son of Eudora, Kansas.
“Oh yeah, big Chiefs fan,” Ballock said. “It was a great weekend.”
It was Ballock’s clutch delivery of big shots in the Bluejays’ win over Villanova, shooting 5-of-7 on three-pointers, that lifted Creighton into the conversation with the likes of Seton Hall, Villanova and Butler for programs with designs on a BIG EAST championship.