{"id":104617,"date":"2026-01-14T11:29:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T11:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/14\/austin-swartzs-ot-jumper-leads-creighton-past-georgetown\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T11:29:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T11:29:24","slug":"austin-swartzs-ot-jumper-leads-creighton-past-georgetown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/14\/austin-swartzs-ot-jumper-leads-creighton-past-georgetown\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Swartz&#8217;s OT jumper leads Creighton past Georgetown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<section id=\"0\" class=\" w-full\">\n<div class=\"xl:container mx-0 !px-4 py-0 pb-4 !mx-0 !px-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.deadspin.com\/tr:w-900\/28000207.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.deadspin.com\/tr:w-900\/28000207.jpg\" alt=\"NCAA Basketball: Georgetown at Creighton\" class=\"w-full\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\"\/><span class=\"text-0.8 leading-tight\">Jan 13, 2026; Omaha, Nebraska, USA;  Creighton Bluejays guard Austin Swartz (1) reacts after a three point basket against the Georgetown Hoyas during the first half at CHI Health Center Omaha. Mandatory Credit: Steven Branscombe-Imagn Images<!-- --> <!-- --> <\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-1\">\n<p>Austin Swartz hit a jump shot with 30 seconds to go in overtime, lifting Creighton to an 86-83 win over Georgetown on Tuesday in Omaha, Neb.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-2\">\n<p>Swartz finished 33 points, including seven in overtime, guiding the Bluejays (11-7, 5-2 Big East) past the Hoyas (9-8, 1-5).<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-3\">\n<p>Georgetown led 76-73 in regulation before Swartz tied the game with a 3-pointer with 19 seconds remaining.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-4\">\n<p>An alley-oop dunk by Georgetown&#8217;s Langston Love at the second-half buzzer was initially ruled to be the game-winner. However, after a video review, the referees decided the ball left Love&#8217;s hand too late, sending the contest to overtime.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-5\">\n<p>Malik Mack scored 17 points and Julius Halaifonua added 16 for Georgetown.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-6\">\n<p>The game was tight throughout until the Hoyas broke a tie with a 7-0 run late in the second half. Halaifonua, Caleb Williams and KJ Lewis all scored on layups. Lewis was fouled on his shot and completed the three-point play to give Georgetown a 74-67 lead with 3:39 to go.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-7\">\n<p>Josh Dix, who had 15 for Creighton, cut the lead to three with 1:05 left to set up Swartz&#8217;s tying shot.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/p>\n<section id=\"section-8\">\n<p>The Hoyas used a 10-0 run midway through the first half to take a 10-point lead, but the Bluejays went on a 14-2 run to end the half with the lead.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-9\">\n<p>Trailing 36-26 with 3:07 to go, Swartz and Dix hit 3-pointers to cut the Georgetown lead to 36-32 with 1:32 left.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-10\">\n<p>Nik Graves then scored on a layup and completed a three-point play to cut the lead to one.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-11\">\n<p>Swartz finished the half by nailing another 3-pointer to give Creighton a 38-36 lead at the break.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-12\">\n<p>The game was tied with just over 10 minutes to go in the half when Malik Mack sank a layup to start the 10-0 run.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-13\">\n<p>Caleb Williams and Lewis followed with back-to-back 3-pointers, and Halaifonua scored in a layup for a 32-22 Georgetown lead.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-14\">\n<p>Both teams were hot from the floor in the first half as Georgetown hit 15 of 27 shots (56%) and Creighton made 15-of-29 (52%).<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-15\">\n<p>Mack led Georgetown with 11 points on 5-of-7 shooting in the first half. Graves led the Bluejays with 10 points on 4-of-8 shooting from the floor before the break.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/p>\n<section id=\"section-16\">\n<p>&#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/deadspin.com\/austin-swartzs-ot-jumper-leads-creighton-past-georgetown\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 13, 2026; Omaha, Nebraska, USA; Creighton Bluejays guard Austin Swartz (1) reacts after a three point basket against the Georgetown Hoyas during the first<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}