SHU/Creighton Best Game of 2024?

[JCB11]

Matt Norlander on the most recent Eye on College Basketball podcast:

“. . .tournament was loaded with really, really good games. However, on January 20th, Creighton and Seton Hall played in Newark to three overtime. I know you don't remember this game whatsoever.

I might have been in the studio for it.

They played three overtime. Creighton won 97-94. It was a phenomenal, phenomenal game, incredible game.

Now, unless you were a Creighton fan.

Wasn't there like a leak or something? There was something.

Not at this game. That was a Providence game from the previous year. But hey, you're in the general vicinity, right?

Seton Hall might have been, or Creighton was playing Providence, so one of the teams is correct.”

“After the fact, the loss winds up being the different. Now, sure, Seton Hall could have won a different game instead of a loss, but this one was three OTs on its home floor against a Creighton team that wound up getting a three seed. If Seton Hall had won this game, it would have made the NCAA tournament because Seton Hall was the third team out of the bracket.

This would have been a quad one win, and it absolutely would have gotten them over the hump there. It was an incredible, incredible game. Again, January 23 OTs.

I think it might have been the only 3-0-T game last year. No, no, I think TCU Baylor might have been in a 3-0-T game as well, but very few of them. That was my pick for best game of the year.”

From Eye On College Basketball: Jim Larrañaga steps down at Miami; 2024 CBB year-in-review; Final Four And 1 weekend preview, Dec 27, 2024

 

[Burnsly]

That game was devastating in multiple ways.

 

[Piratz]

Brutal game for us. Oh what could’ve been rolling to 7-1 BE, another Q1 win and beating the Big 3.

 

[radecicco]

And we had the game won twice maybe three times but each time a dubious ref whistle or non whistle took it away.

 

[Burnsly]

It was also when General Soreness entered the fray.

 

[Piratz]

It was also when General Soreness entered the fray.

That first game without him was the killer when we blew a 10-pt lead to Providence at home and Sha indicated he had no idea Richmond would be out until just before the game started.

 

[SOpirate]

I know this is an unpopular opinion here but there were also some dubious calls/non calls that went our way down the stretch of that game. A couple of key FT misses is what really cost us.

 

[shu09]

I know this is an unpopular opinion here but there were also some dubious calls/non calls that went our way down the stretch of that game. A couple of key FT misses is what really cost us.

Low IQ play/mental errors cost Seton Hall in that game, not the refs. It was a great game though.

 

[radecicco]

Low IQ play/mental errors cost Seton Hall in that game, not the refs. It was a great game though.

What low IQ plays are you referencing?

 

[Seton75]

I know this is an unpopular opinion here but there were also some dubious calls/non calls that went our way down the stretch of that game. A couple of key FT misses is what really cost us.

Yeah, I think two of our guys pounded Kalc on one OT play. But that play doesnt happen if they get the inbounds play right.