Jackson McAndrew scored 19 points to lift Creighton to a convincing 83-55 victory over Le Moyne on Thursday in Omaha, Neb.
McAndrew sank 7 of 10 shots from the floor, including 5 of 7 from 3-point range, to help the Bluejays improve to 2-0 under new head coach Alan Huss.
Creighton scored the game’s first 13 points and didn’t look back, ultimately taking a 54-17 lead into intermission.
Wes Enis followed up his 25-point performance in the Bluejays’ 76-61 win over Kansas City on Monday by scoring 16 points versus the Dolphins. The South Florida transfer made just 6 of 19 shots from the floor on Thursday, however, including 3 of 14 from 3-point range.
Oswin Erhunmwunse scored 10 points and BJ Davis added nine to go along with six rebounds and five assists.
The Bluejays held a decided edge on the interior, dominating on points in the paint (36-20) and rebounds (52-32).
Khalil Williams scored 10 points and Ty Francis and Trevor Roe each added nine for the Dolphins (0-2), who committed 19 turnovers en route to losing their second straight game in the Cornhusker State. Le Moyne dropped a 106-64 decision to Nebraska on Monday.
Creighton bolted out of the blocks, with Enis scoring five points to highlight his team’s 13-0 run. Roe and Francis countered with 3-pointers for Le Moyne.
McAndrew made four 3-pointers and a layup during a personal 14-point stretch to extend the Bluejays’ lead to 38-9.
Erhunmwunse added a pair of buckets on the interior before Roe drained a pair of 3-pointers. That late surge lit a fire under Huss, who called a timeout and laid into his charges.
Le Moyne scored 23 of the first 33 points of the second half to chip into its deficit, highlighted by a 12-0 run. Leandro Gysel converted a three-point play to ignite the latter sequence and capped it with a pair of free throws.
Creighton’s Austin Swartz stopped the momentum with a pair of free throws for his first points of the night. That began an 11-0 run, capped by a 3-pointer and a layup from Enis to effectively seal the win.