At the 18:47 mark of the second half, Creighton trailed 46-40 after a pair of free throws from Blake Harper. 12 minutes and 18 seconds later, they’d scored only eight more points — while giving up 34 to Gonzaga. With 6:29 to go, that 46-40 deficit had ballooned to 80-48.
The problems were too numerous to count.
“The second half was just a total meltdown,” Greg McDermott said on his postgame radio show. “Our decisions with the basketball. Our fight to get open in the right spot so we could run some offense with some flow.