Villanova dropped a big one to Creighton in a Big East Battle, losing 86-70 on Saturday.

As we’ve said, losses are learning experiences. After St. John’s earlier this month, Coach Jay Wright and the Wildcats recouped. Hopefully, this Creighton loss will give some perspective and act as a jumping off for the next week of practice.

Let’s go through three takeaways from the game:

Struggle to win when JRE and Gillespie can’t score

It seems that in order for the ‘Cats to win, they need their two best stars to play well: Collin Gillespie and Jeremiah Robinson-Earl.