Alabama vs. Creighton: Live updates, score, highlights
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – No. 7 Alabama (7-2) will face Creighton (7-3) tonight in its 10th game of the 2024-25 season. The Crimson Tide will host the Bluejays at Coleman Coliseum at 7:30 p.m. CT, and the non-conference matchup will be broadcast live on the SEC Network.
Alabama and Creighton are meeting for the second straight season, with the Bluejays prevailing, 85-82, in Omaha last season. These are two of five teams in the country to have reached at least three of the last four Sweet 16s, joining Gonzaga, Houston and UCLA.
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It has been 33 days in between home games for Alabama, its longest stretch since 1976-77 season. This will be the fifth-straight and sixth out of the last seven games that Alabama has faced a player named to the Naismith Player of the Year Watch List (Creighton’s Ryan Kalkbrenner, North Carolina’s RJ Davis, Oregon’s Jackson Shelstad, Rutgers’ Ace Bailey and Dylan Harper, Houston’s LJ Cryer and Purdue’s Braden Smith).
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Final: Alabama 83, Creighton 75
12/14/2024 09:36:48 PMThe Crimson Tide advances to 8-2 on the season.
Oats, crowd not happy with turnover call
12/14/2024 09:20:29 PMNate Oats and everybody in the building were not happy with Labaron Philon turnover, as boos rain down on the officials at the under-4. Philon is up to 16 points.
Alabama 70, Creighton 60 (3:47, 2H)
Alabama goes back up by double digits
12/14/2024 09:05:48 PMThe Tide is 4 for its last 5 from the field, Jamiya Neal turns it over and Coleman Coliseum is rockin’ at the under-8 media timeout.
Alabama 61, Creighton 51 (7:49, 2H)
Bluejays not going away
12/14/2024 08:57:59 PMThe Tide is 1 for its last 15 beyond the arc as the Bluejays won’t go away. It helps that Creighton is 2-for-15 overall from deep tonight.
Alabama 55, Creighton 47 (10:36, 2H)
Sears, Philon start 2H strong
12/14/2024 08:45:22 PMMark Sears and Labaron Philon have scored 10 of UA’s 12 points in the second half. Sears leads all scorers with 13 points, and Philon is right behind him with 12 points.
Alabama 49, Creighton 37 (15:44, 2H)
Halftime: Alabama 37, Creighton 31
12/14/2024 08:21:27 PMThe Bluejays end the first half on a 21-10 run.
Scoring drought for Alabama
12/14/2024 08:12:16 PMThe Tide hasn’t scored in the last 3:22 and is 0 for its last 6, 1 for its last 10 at the under-4 media timeout.
Alabama 33, Creighton 23 (3:02, 1H)
Tide on top at under-8 timeout
12/14/2024 08:02:36 PMBluejays are 1 for their last 8 and just 4-17 overall. Aden Holloway will go to the line to shoot three after the under-8 media timeout.
Alabama 29, Creighton 16 (6:54, 1H)
Youngblood knocks down a three
12/14/2024 07:50:42 PMThe Tide has made 6 of its last 8 from the field and is shooting 68% (8-13) at the under-12 break. The Bluejays are 30% (3-10) thus far.
Chris Youngblood knocked down UA’s second 3-pointer (2-5).
Alabama 18, Creighton 10 (11:52, 1H)
Alabama leads at first media break
12/14/2024 07:38:58 PMFreshmen score 5 straight to give UA a 4-point lead at the under-16 media timeout. That includes a 3 by center Aiden Sherrell, who has the Tide’s lone 3-point thus far.
Alabama 9, Creighton 5 (15:37, 1H)
Youngblood set to make his UA debut
12/14/2024 07:10:55 PMNate Oats confirms to the CTSN pregame show that Chris Youngblood will play tonight.
“He’s gonna be really good for us come SEC play. I don’t know if we’ll see that version of him tonight, but we’ll see some version of him.”
Crimson Tide starters vs. Bluejays
12/14/2024 07:11:20 PMNate Oats goes with the same starting lineup for the second contest in a row.
Mark Sears, Labaron Philon, Jarin Stevenson, Grant Nelson and Cliff Omoruyi
Alabama will wear new throwback unis
12/14/2024 06:33:53 PMThe Alabama men’s basketball team will wear new throwback jerseys on Saturday night.
Former Crimson Tide standout Erwin Dudley, now a graduate assistant at Alabama, revealed the uniform news to the players before their December 14 home game against Creighton.
Alabama wore similar jerseys when Dudley starred for the Crimson Tide from 1999-2003.
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