Trey Alexander tied a career high with seven 3-pointers and host Creighton scored the first 19 points of the game to embarrass Georgetown 99-59 Wednesday night in Omaha, Neb.
Alexander made six of his first seven attempts from the arc and finished the night with a game-high 25 points on 8-for-11 shooting, and 7-for-10 from distance. All five Creighton starters scored in double figures before subbing out for good with more than nine minutes left in the rout.
Ryan Kalkbrenner had 16 points and Baylor Scheierman posted 13 points, 13 rebounds and five assists on Senior Night. Arthur Kaluma added 13 points and seven rebounds and Ryan Nembhard rounded it out with 10 points and six assists for the Bluejays (19-11, 13-6 Big East).
The Bluejays finished 19-for-34 (55.9 percent) from 3-point range, their most made threes since 2018. They tallied 27 assists on their 33 baskets.
Creighton enjoyed an easy win after losing three of its previous four games. The Bluejays moved into a third-place tie with No. 20 Providence in the conference standings with one regular-season game left.
Primo Spears led the Hoyas with 21 points and Bryson Mozone added 13 in the regular-season finale for Georgetown (7-24, 2-18). Georgetown will be the No. 11 seed in the Big East tournament and face No. 6 seed Villanova in the first round on March 8.
Kalkbrenner had seven of Creighton’s first 10 points of the game, including an early dunk and a three-point play. Alexander followed with his first 3-pointer and Scheierman had the next six points for a 19-0 lead just 6:24 into the contest.
Georgetown ended the drought when Brandon Murray made a free throw at the 13:17 mark. The Hoyas started 0-for-12 from the field before Spears hit a long jumper at 12:12.
Alexander soon went off for four quick triples, making two of them on runouts following missed Georgetown shots. The Hoyas were powerless to defend it, and the score was 38-9 after Alexander’s fifth of the night fell. His sixth 3-pointer gave Creighton its first 30-point advantage at 43-13.
Creighton led 51-24 at halftime. The Bluejays were 17-for-32 overall, including 10-for-17 from 3-point range, in the first 20 minutes.
An 8-0 Creighton run early in the second half featured Alexander’s final triple of the night before Kaluma threw down an alley-oop dunk off a feed by Scheierman. That play made it 69-29, the first 40-point lead of the game, with 15:03 still to go.
Creighton reserves Shereef Mitchell, Ben Shtolzberg, Evan Young and Sami Osmani threw in 3-pointers during garbage time.
–Field Level Media
