The highest-ranked Kansas Jayhawks picked a extremely dangerous night time to lose their capturing contact.
Unranked Creighton took benefit and took down Kansas 76-63 in solely this system’s second-ever upset over a No. 1 ranked opponent.
The Jayhawks shot a dismal 35.7 p.c from the sector and solely hit eight of its 23 three-pointers chucked.
Star participant Hunter Dickinson was held to simply six factors and successfully boxed out beneath the rim with solely eight rebounds on the night time.
On the opposite aspect of the ball, Creighton hit 12 three-pointers to help it in a sport the place it by no means trailed from begin to end amazingly.
Junior Pop Issacs dropped a exceptional 27 factors, together with six of the crew’s pictures from behind the arc. Throughout, it was an enormous crew effort to take down the perennial juggernaut.
“That is the constructing No. 1 groups go to die evidently,” head coach Greg McDermott declared confidently to the Fox broadcast postgame as college students stormed the court docket round him.
Kansas’ (7-1) undefeated begin to the yr got here to an abrupt finish as Creighton (6-3) earned itself as huge of a Quad 1 win as a program can placed on its resume.
Each squads will doubtless be anticipated to take part within the NCAA Event in March.
Kansas will journey to face SEC foe Missouri (Dec. 8) earlier than returning dwelling to host ACC opponent North Carolina State (Dec. 14).
Creighton will host UNLV (Dec. 7) earlier than hitting the street for what regarded like an intimidating lineup previous to Wednesday in No. 10 Alabama (Dec. 14) after which Georgetown (Dec. 18) to open up Huge East play.
