Demons 3-0 Big East start after ten point road win at Creighton

OMAHA—Forrest Robinson made his first five 3-pointers, all in the first six minutes of the game, and scored a career-high 20 points as DePaul took sole possession of first place in the Big East with a 70-60 victory over Creighton on Wednesday night.The Blue Demons (9-7, 3-0) have won their first three Big East games for the first time since they joined the conference in 2005-06.Creighton (9-7, 0-3) has lost its first three conference games for the first time since 1993-94, when it was in the Missouri Valley, and four in a row overall for the first time since 1999-2000. The Bluejays also had their 11-game home conference win streak end.Myke Henry added 11 points for DePaul.Toby Hegner had 15 points and Avery Dingman added 10 for Creighton.Robinson scored all 15 of his first-half points in the opening six minutes. He swished four straight 3s, and after Aaron Simpson hit from deep, he got the shooter’s roll on a ball that hit the front of the rim and banked in off the backboard. Robinson finished with a career-high six 3s.The Blue Demons led by 16 points a little over seven minutes into the game after Durrell McDonald made the seventh of his team’s season high-matching 11 3s.DePaul missed 10 of its next 13 shots, allowing Creighton to cut the lead to single digits. But a 9-0 spurt pushed DePaul’s cushion to 17 points before James Milliken’s 3 from the corner made it 39-25 at half.Hegner’s 3-pointer ended an 11-2 run that pulled Creighton to 49-43. Billy Garrett’s 3-pointer finished a 13-5 run that pushed DePaul’s lead back to 14 points with 5:10 to play.Creighton wasn’t done, though. A pair of three-point plays by Dingman and Isaiah Zierden’s 3-pointer cut it to 66-60 with two minutes left. The Bluejays got no closer.DePaul: The Blue Demons wore their red road uniforms for the first time this season.