Creighton vs. San Diego State dwell rating, updates, highlights from March Insanity Elite Eight sport

UConn and Florida Atlantic punched their tickets to the Ultimate 4 on Saturday and now they await who their dance companions are in Houston.

On Sunday, 4 extra groups play for his or her likelihood to maintain dancing, with solely two chairs left when the music stops. The Elite Eight continues with Creighton (No. 6) taking up San Diego State (No. 5) — two groups that weren’t presupposed to be right here.

The Bluejays are flying excessive following one other convincing win in opposition to Princeton. Creighton hasn’t been really examined up to now, dominating opponents with a mixture of its outdoors taking pictures and rebounding. It is a group that depends on its dimension and physicality to win video games, one thing that is confirmed to be vital on this 12 months’s event.

Greg McDermott’s crew also can profit from a bodily sport as they’re a wonderful free throw taking pictures crew. By way of the primary three video games of the event, Creighton is taking pictures 52-of-57 from the charity stripe. After making the primary Elite Eight in program historical past, they’re going to as soon as once more have to depend on these areas to e-book a visit to Houston.

On the opposite facet is a San Diego State crew that’s making loads of followers within the “protection wins championships” crowd. Whereas Creighton has averaged round 81 factors per sport, the Aztecs are solely hovering round 69. If this turns right into a shootout on offense, it is unlikely that San Diego State can sustain. Nonetheless, they simply placed on a clinic in opposition to the most effective offensive groups within the nation, Alabama, holding them to 64 factors.

Creighton does not have as a lot expertise that Alabama had, making this an fascinating matchup that may doubtless come all the way down to protection and who controls the glass. If one factor’s for sure, each of those groups have confirmed worthy of the possibility to play for a visit to the Ultimate 4.

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The Sporting Information is monitoring dwell scoring updates and highlights from Creighton vs. San Diego State on Sunday. Beneath are the outcomes and prime highlights from the NCAA Match sport.

Creighton vs. San Diego State rating

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Creighton vs. San Diego State dwell updates, highlights from 2023 March Insanity

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3:53 p.m. — A flagrant-1 has been issued to Ryan Kalkbrenner for a hook-and-hold on Nathan Mensah. The Creighton lead has been lower down to 2 following the Mensah free throws.

3:49 p.m. — An officers timeout permits Ryan Nembhard to get to the bench — coping with a wrist harm. It seems he suffered the harm on a chop-down from an SDSU defender arising the courtroom with the ball.

3:45 p.m. — On the under-12 timeout, Creighton is up by 4, although San Diego State continues to hold round.

The steal and the end for @Aztec_MBB pic.twitter.com/4cazV5cCbd

— CBS Sports activities Faculty Basketball 🏀 (@CBSSportsCBB) March 26, 2023

3:43 p.m. — An 8-0 run from Creighton has now ended — lastly — after a made three from Lamont Butler. It is the primary factors from the Aztecs in almost 5 minutes.

3:41 p.m. — It has gotten very ugly in Louisville. No, not due to the physicality, however as a result of neither crew is able to making a shot for the time being. The microphones on the rim are getting fairly the exercise proper now. Kalkbrenner additionally had one thing to say about that scoring drought.

BIG MAN SLAM @bluejaymbb pic.twitter.com/c6lKn3lhVm

— CBS Sports activities (@CBSSports) March 26, 2023

3:35 p.m. — Creighton is 0-for-4 from downtown to start the second half. They’re simply 2-for-11 right now from past the arc. On the first media timeout, Creighton is up 35-34 however a motivated Aztecs crew is threatening to take over this sport.

Kaluma with an acrobatic end 🎪 @BluejayMBB pic.twitter.com/dzAA0SYvhf

— CBS Sports activities Faculty Basketball 🏀 (@CBSSportsCBB) March 26, 2023

3:32 p.m. — Mensah is taking up and the Aztecs seem like a totally totally different crew, taking their first lead since 5-4 early within the opening half.

Protection turns into offense for @Aztec_MBB 🔥 pic.twitter.com/gFNJBmL2Ql

— CBS Sports activities Faculty Basketball 🏀 (@CBSSportsCBB) March 26, 2023

3:30 p.m. — San Diego State seems to have acquired the memo to start the second half. 4 fast factors within the paint, together with a pleasant lob to Nathan Mensah — who solely performed eight minutes within the first half.

The Aztecs getting the second half began in fashion @Aztec_MBB pic.twitter.com/hivEkBihLO

— CBS Sports activities (@CBSSports) March 26, 2023

3:28 p.m. — The second half is about to get underway. Creighton managed the primary 20 minutes however might want to keep their benefit within the paint to shut this one out. They led SDSU 18-12 in that space throughout the first half. The Bluejays have not relied on their outdoors taking pictures, however will probably be fascinating to see in the event that they use the lengthy ball to unfold the ground extra within the last 20.

San Diego State will wish to dictate the tempo extra within the second half whereas working the ball inside. They had been a second half crew in opposition to Alabama on Friday and can want one other efficiency like that to get to Houston.

Halftime: Creighton 33, San Diego State 28

3:07 p.m. — It’s halftime in Louisville and Creighton maintained its 33-28 lead. The opening 20 minutes had been pretty clear as neither crew made it into the bonus. Each side place an emphasis on rebounding and they’re virtually even to this point. Kalkbrenner is the Bluejays main scorer with 10, whereas Lamont Butler leads the best way for the Aztecs with 9.

3:03 p.m. — SDSU tied the sport and Creighton responded with a fast 5-0 run. They’ve a 33-28 lead with 44 seconds left within the first half.

3:02 p.m. — We are able to fortunately report there’s some SPILLAGE in Louisville — all the time a spotlight worthy second. Elite spillage within the Elite Eight.

Heads up 🤣#MarchMadness pic.twitter.com/9PQULbtJLw