Creighton didn’t get off to the smoothest of starts offensively on Wednesday night in Chicago. Even with the DePaul’s top two big men — Femi Olujobi and Paul Reed — sidelined with foul trouble, the Bluejays still found themselves trailing 12-10 midway through the first half. Then all of a sudden they received a major boost from an unlikely contributor when senior guard Connor Cashaw got to the rim to tie the game with 10:34 left for the first of his eight first-half points that helped Creighton build a 41-30 lead at the break.
He finished with a season-high 10 points on 5-for-5 shooting — all on layups — in the 12-point win, and it were his reps on the scout team the two days prior to the game that helped him prepare to find those scoring opportunities.