{"id":2117,"date":"2018-02-21T09:25:49","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T14:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/?p=2117"},"modified":"2018-02-21T09:25:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T14:25:49","slug":"bulldogs-bash-bluejays-in-home-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/2018\/02\/21\/bulldogs-bash-bluejays-in-home-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulldogs bash Bluejays in home finale"},"content":{"rendered":"

Photo by Jimmy Lafakis<\/span><\/p>\n

By Collin Perry<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Butler men\u2019s basketball team dominated their final home game of the season, beating Creighton 93-70 on Feb. 20. <\/span><\/p>\n

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After trading buckets early, the Bulldogs took off offensively, taking a 46-34 lead at halftime. Redshirt junior guard Paul Jorgensen came off the bench and led the Bulldogs with 10 points in the first half, going four-of-five from the field and hitting both of his three-point shots. Butler finished the half shooting 8-12 from behind the arc while holding the Bluejays to six trifectas by halftime.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Bulldogs pulled away in the second half and did not look back. Creighton shot just 18 percent from 3-point land and only totaled 10 second half rebounds. The Bulldogs finished 14-26 from three and 54 percent from the field. Senior Kelan Martin totaled 18 points in the second half and finished the game with a team-high 26 points. Jorgensen and junior center Nate Fowler joined Martin with double-digits in the scoring column, with 17 and 15 points, respectively. <\/span><\/p>\n

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One key for the Bulldogs\u2019 success was forcing turnovers. Butler turned the ball over nine times, while Creighton committed 14 turnovers. Butler outscored Creighton 22-9 off of those turnovers.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Another key for Butler was bench scoring. The Bulldog bench contributed to 43 of the team\u2019s 93 points. The Butler non-starters outscored the Creighton bench 43-31 in the game. Butler\u2019s bench shot 64 percent on the game. <\/span><\/p>\n

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The Bulldogs move to 19-10 on the season and 9-7 in Big East play. Butler\u2019s takes a trip to Queens for a matchup with St. John\u2019s at Carnesecca Arena on Feb. 28 for their next game. Creighton heads back to Omaha to face No. 3 Villanova on Feb. 24.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo by Jimmy Lafakis By Collin Perry   The Butler men\u2019s basketball team dominated their final home game of the season, beating Creighton 93-70 on Feb. 20.   After trading buckets early, the Bulldogs took off offensively, taking a 46-34 lead at halftime. Redshirt junior guard Paul Jorgensen came off the bench and led the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9195102,"featured_media":2118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11891],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t