Halftime Report: Evansville 38, Creighton 35

For about 14 minutes, the Jays had far and away their best half of basketball on the road this year brewing. While the struggles from the floor of this Bluejay squad have been well documented so far in the first half of the season, CU was bombing away from three, including a trio of treys from Nick Bahe, who wasn't even expected to play tonight after hurting his ankle against Indiana State.

The turning point ironically came when Matt Webster, who is leading the league in scoring early on, collected his second foul with a slinging elbow call with about six minutes left in the half. Webster spent the rest of the period sitting on the bench and his teammates seemed to have a fire lit under their tails. The Aces were able to get a couple turnovers, start to hit some outside shots and got the ball rolling downhill as UE closed the half on a 19-2 run to take a three point lead into halftime.

Granted, it's hard to do a much about 25 foot threes that are going in, but again, the Jays fail to recongize the importance of not letting the most potent offensive weapon on the floor beat you. With Webster on the bench, that's the outside shooting of Jason Holsinger, who was firing away and drove most of that final run. That is unacceptable and that gets you beat on the road by a team that has no business staying with you.

The bombs were falling for Creighton throughout the first half, but the Jays cannot get into a quick trigger mode. The bread and butter for this team is to get the ball to Tolliver on the blocks and get to the basket and create. We cannot fail to do that. Threes in this system need to be taken after the extra pass or on the kickout, and we forgot that down the stretch.