TERRE HAUTE, Ind. ? The Creighton Bluejays (12-2, 2-0 MVC) proved to be too much for Indiana State (3-10, 1-1 MVC), as they won their ninth straight game after a 79-61 victory over the Sycamores Wednesday afternoon at the Hulman Center. 

Creighton's P'Allen Stinnett gave the visiting Bluejays a 3-0 start when he nailed his first three-point attempt of the game shortly after tip off.  The Bluejays would maintain that lead the entire first half.

Stinnett scored his second consecutive three-pointer at 17:29 to put Creighton up by six points at 8-2 with 17:29 left in the first half.  A minute later, Sycamore guard Aaron Carter answered with a three-point shot of his own to bring the Sycamores within three.

Indiana State pulled within one at the 14:16 mark when Jordan Printy and Harry Marshall scored back-to-back baskets from behind the arc for a 14-13 Bluejay advantage.

The Bluejays' Kaleb Korver wouldn't let the Sycamores take their first lead as he and teammate Justin Carter hit back-to-back three-pointers to put Creighton up by seven with 11:49 left on the clock in the first half.  Those three-pointers turned out to be the beginning of a 14-2 Bluejay run that put Creighton up by 13 points with 8:26 showing on the clock.

The Sycamores were finally able to stop the Bluejays at the 7:28 mark when Marshall registered his second three-pointer of the game to cut the lead down to ten at 28-18.  Neither team scored in the next two-and-a-half minutes, as the two squads went 0-for-9 in that span until Cavel Witter stopped the cold shooting by hitting his second jumper of the half  with 4:45 remaining.

Creighton extended its lead to fourteen points, its largest lead of the half, with 2:46 remaining after a Casey Harriman three-pointer, his only basket of the first half.  Indiana State managed to pull within eight with just ten seconds remaining thanks to three-point baskets by Printy and Jay Tunnell and a layup by Marshall.  Creighton's Stinnett, who recorded 11 first-half points including a 3-for-4 effort from behind the arc, banked in a last-second running three-pointer at the buzzer to put the Bluejay lead at eleven, 40-29, at halftime.

The Bluejays shot 48 percent from field-goal range compared to just 32 percent for the Sycamores.  The visitors also shot a perfect 9-for-9 from the free-throw line as Indiana State went 3-for-6 for just a 50 percent mark.

To begin the second twenty-minute period, it was the Sycamores who came out on fire.  Led by Tunnell, who began the Sycamore scoring by hitting his second three-pointer of the game at 19:00, the Sycamores outscored the Bluejays 13-6 in the first four minutes to cut the lead to four at 46-42.  The highlight of those first four minutes was highlighted by Brant Leitnaker, who ignited the Hulman Center crowd by smashing home a one-handed dunk from the right baseline.

Stinnett was able to hold off the Sycamores single-handedly, as he sent home three consecutive three-pointers to put Creighton back up by nine, 51-42, with 15:05 left in the game.  Despite back-to-back Sycamore buckets by Aaron Carter and Rashad Reed, the Bluejays' Chad Millard made two successive three-pointers to put his team back up 59-49 with 9:17 on the clock.

In the remaining nine minutes, Creighton would outscore the Sycamores 20-12 which helped them fly away with a 79-61 victory as they received 26 points from their bench.  Marshall led the Sycamores in scoring with 15 points and four assists.  He was followed by Reed who finished with 11.  Stinnett led all scorers with 22 points on 8-for-12 shooting, including 6-for-8 effort from three-point land.  As a team, the Bluejays shot 50 percent from the field and even better from three-point range ? 63 percent. 

Next up for the Sycamores on January 4 at the Hulman Center is Missouri Valley Conference and in-state foe Evansville.  That game will be featured on Valley TV (FSN Midwest) for a 1:35 p.m. tip off.