Jon Nyatawa of the Omaha World-Herald shared an interesting stat on Twitter the other day: Creighton has held a Big East opponent below 36% shooting just 12 times since joining the league in 2013 (an arbitrary cut-off, granted, but stick with me here). They’ve done it three straight games entering Wednesday night’s showdown with Seton Hall, as UConn shot 35.8% on December 20, Xavier shot 35.3% on December 23, and Providence shot 33.8% on Saturday. That’s a pretty notable achievement, arbitrariness of the 36% cutoff line or not.
The Jays won those three games by a combined nine points: UConn and Providence by two, and Xavier by five.