Standing 6-foot-7 and officially listed at 205 pounds, Creighton makeshift five-man Christian Bishop had his hands full on Tuesday night against an Oral Roberts front line that matched him in height and outweighed him by anywhere from 35-70 pounds. Against a trio of bruisers, the sophomore from Lee’s Summit, Missouri brought his “A game” by dropping a career-high 17 points and matching his season-high with eight rebounds — seven of which came on the offensive glass — to lead the Bluejays to a 72-60 win in front of nearly 16,500 fans at the CHI Health Center Omaha.
Bishop ended the first half with a couple of extra effort plays on the offensive glass to send CU to the locker room with a 15-point lead, then spear-headed a spurt in the second half with a pair of dunks and a nice back-door feed to point guard Marcus Zegarowski that helped push the lead to 22 with 5:44 to go before the Jays ran out of gas and allowed the Golden Eagles to trim the deficit in half down the stretch.