Gonzaga fans will be fairly familiar with the Bulldogs’ Sweet 16 opponent in the Creighton Bluejays. After all, these teams recently played a home-and-home series during the 2017-18 and 2018-19 seasons in which the Zags won both games and averaged 97 ppg in doing so.
The Creighton Bluejays are making their first appearance in the Sweet 16 since 1974, and their first advancing to this point in the tournament in the modern era so this is fairly uncharted territory for the program. To get to the second weekend, Creighton beat a pair of double-digit seeds in UC Santa Barbara (63-62) before comfortably dispatching the Ohio Bobcats 72-58.