Christian Bishop was a menace, with 19 points, seven rebounds, five assists, four blocks and three steals. If there was an area to positively affect the game, he did it. His dunks electrified the crowd, but it was frequently his defense — blocking or altering shots, stepping into passing lanes to steal the ball, denying post touches altogether — that truly changed the game.
“Christian was unbelievable,” Greg McDermott said on his postgame radio show. “Marcus (Zegarowski) talked about a play he made where he got out and hedged a ball screen hard, got them to pick it up, took off and sprinted back and deflected the pass as it went into the post.