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Oddsmakers move Oregon's Jermaine Couisnard prop bet total up three points following 40 point showing against South Carolina Thursday.
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Ryan Kalkbrenner scored 23 points and Trey Alexander had 19 for the Bluejays in a big win against Akron in the first round.
Oregon vs. Creighton Prop Bets
Creighton comes into this game as a -4.5 favorite against Oregon.
Oregon's Jermaine Couisnard scored 40 points in a victory over South Carolina Thursday. That's prompted the oddsmakers to move his score total up a full three points from 14.5 to 17.5 for Saturday's game.
He also set a record for points scored by an Oregon player in an NCAA tournament game and also at PPG Paints Arena.
"He was really feeling it," said Oregon coach Dana Altman, who moves to 8-0 in first-round games with the Ducks. "He had a couple 3s that were tough, and I think that really got him going. He got in the paint and finished some tough shots. He just had it going. Those are games every player dreams of, you know, getting it going and getting it going in the NCAA tournament is a really good feeling.
"It was a big-time performance. They tried hedging those picks really hard and getting him out of some ball screen action because he'd been really successful with that. But he just found another way to score."
The Creighton Blue Jays advance following a 77-60 win over Akron.
Ryan Kalkbrenner scored 23 points and Trey Alexander had 19 for the Bluejays.
Baylor Scheierman added 15 points and 13 rebounds for Creighton, which made 10 of 17 3-pointers.
“The game is 40 minutes long and there’s a lot of ups and downs,” Scheierman said. “Obviously in the first half there was some things that didn’t go right for us and they were kind of hanging with us and whatnot. But then we were able to get stops and get a game of runs and we were able to go on ours. The experience of knowing that the game is 40 minutes and anything can happen, that helps us out.”
Scoring
Jadrian Tracey (7.5)
Oregon Ducks
Jermaine Couisnard (17.5) - That's up 3 points from their first round game.
Oregon Ducks
N'Faly Dante (16.5)
Oregon Ducks
Baylor Scheierman (18.5)
Creighton Bluejays
Ryan Kalkbrenner (17.5)
Creighton Bluejays
Steven Ashworth (12.5)
Creighton Bluejays
Trey Alexander (17.5)
Creighton Bluejays
Rebounds
Jadrian Tracey (3.5)
Oregon Ducks
Jermaine Couisnard (4.5)
Oregon Ducks
N'Faly Dante (8.5)
Oregon Ducks
Baylor Scheierman (9.5)
Creighton Bluejays
Ryan Kalkbrenner (97.5)
Creighton Bluejays
Steven Ashworth (3.5)
Creighton Bluejays
Trey Alexander (4.5)
Creighton Bluejays
- Mary Montgomery, Gambling911.com
