The Brown Bears and Creighton Bluejays meet Friday in college basketball action at the UVI Sports & Fitness Center. The Brown Bears look for another win to improve to 4-1. The Creighton Bluejays look for another win to improve to 4-0 on the year.
The Brown Bears are averaging 87.3 points on 48.2 percent shooting and allowing 64.3 points on 42.1 percent shooting. Kino Lilly Jr. is averaging 13.3 points and 1.5 rebounds, while Paxson Wojcik is averaging 11.8 points and 5 rebounds. Nana Owusu-Anane is the third double-digit scorer and Dan Friday is dishing 4 assists. The Brown Bears are shooting 33.6 percent from beyond the arc and 81.7 percent from the free throw line. The Brown Bears are allowing 37.7 percent shooting from deep and are grabbing 37 rebounds per game.
The Creighton Bluejays are averaging 72.7 points on 48.6 percent shooting and allowing 63.3 points on 3.8 percent shooting. Ryan Nembhard is averaging 16 points and 4.3 rebounds, while Alex O’Connell is averaging 15.3 points and 8 rebounds. Ryan Hawkins is the third double-digit scorer and Ryan Kalkbrenner is grabbing 6.7 rebounds. The Creighton Bluejays are shooting 26.9 percent from beyond the arc and 56 percent from the free throw line. The Creighton Bluejays are allowing 28.8 percent shooting from deep and are grabbing 44 rebounds per game.
The Bears are 2-9 ATS in their last 11 neutral site games and 4-0 ATS in their last 4 games overall. The Bluejays are 4-1 ATS in their last 5 Friday games and 2-5 ATS in their last 7 games overall. The under is 7-2-2 in Bears last 11 overall. The under is 6-2 in Bluejays last 8 overall.
The Brown Bears aren’t a pushover, and they hung around with UNC this season, which included leading the Tar Heels with just 12 minutes left. It wouldn’t be shocking if Brown put up another fight here. With that said, we know what the Creighton Bluejays are capable of and when they have things flowing offensively, they can run anybody out of the gym. I don’t want to be on the other side with Creighton is cooking. I’ll lay the chalk.