Bracketbusted

Mason failed to upset Creighton late last night in Omaha to add their first double digit loss and another road stumble to their record. Mason's formula of poor free-throw shooting and turnovers let to another demise, although at certain points they looked as if they were capable of stealing the game. Make no mistake though, the Bluejays were pretty hot last night and Booker Woodfox made John Vaughan look like a high school freshman. Some of Woodfox's shots were contested and he still drained them but he was also given way too much space for a guy who leads the nation in long range shooting. Speaking of long range shooting, Dre Smith had another horrid night shooting the ball and would have been scoreless without one garbage time basket late. It's getting real tiring to watch Dre Smith launch up these miss fires and it's almost getting to the point where you have to question the amount of minutes he is still getting. Yesterday the Washington Post pointed out that before the game Dre was currently on an 0-for-23 streak from three-point land. Say what you want to about his defensive prescence the guy is still just not getting it done out there. Cam Long, who started off the night fairly hot, cooled off to start the second half and then started to get with it when it was too late. At this point you would think Long was stop being so unselfish and take the ball to the hole more. The offense again was looking to get Darryl Monroe going early and he had some mild success in the first half but was better in this one setting up his teammates as he finished with 6 assists. The freshmen had trouble with fouls early in front of a crowd of over 17,000 and Ryan Pearson again failed to reach double figures. The front court was not a factor in this one and they let Blue Jay center Kenny Lawson Jr. get way too many uncontested baskets. Overall the depth of Creighton drained Mason in the 2nd half while they were attempting a late comeback.