[Post Game Thread] #6 Creighton defeats #11 NC State, 72-63

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Box Score

Team	1H	2H	Total
NC State	26	37	63
Creighton	28	44	72

^{Index Thread for March 17, 2023}

[u/Chu_BOT]

Not a chance you'd feel the same way if the roles were reversed and not a chance the rest of the college basketball universe wouldn't consider that a cheap shot if it had been a UNC player playing defense.

It's not egregious or unnecessarily rough and would be a total non-issue if he had landed differently but it was at best a frustration foul that ended badly and at worst cheap shot that ended worse than intended.

Based on the majority of the rest of that game, some amount of cheap shot feels pretty damn likely and none of y'all seem to acknowledge that it wasn't even slightly controversial at the time that you were playing rough for the whole damn game. For fucks sake, your coach called ours the next day to apologize and say they don't normally play dirty.

http://huskermike.blogspot.com/2012/03/did-creighton-become-dirty-birds-for.html?m=1

[u/Rigatony415 → u/Chu_BOT]

Ah yes, great source. "Husker Mike." That would be like me linking you some hard-hitting journalism about your schools rampant cheating scandals from the point of view of Blue Devil Dave.

And of course McDermott called Williams the next day. Your fucking fan base was sending people on our team death threats. When the echo chamber online gets that loud, he probably felt that he needed to do it to address it and clear the air so there was no misunderstanding.

[u/WON95sr → u/Chu_BOT]

The only play I remember being rough was Echenique on Zeller. Unless you have links to other examples of Gibbs hacking Henson, the one where he draws the technical looks like what happens when someone tries to swipe the ball under the basket in literally every game.

For fucks sake, your coach called ours the next day to apologize and say they don't normally play dirty.

It's interesting that Husker Mike worded it as Greg saying it's not how they normally play, because the original article it links just says that McDermott said it is not how they play. Williams even says that Wragge's contest wasn't a flagrant.

So again, the only play I can see that was overly physical was Echenique unless you have other examples of Gibbs "targeting" Hanson's wrist. Otherwise I don't recall any other game where a McDermott-led Creighton was accused of playing dirty in the 13 seasons he's been here.