At halftime of Sunday’s Creighton-UNO basketball game, three of the Bluejays’ best shooters — P’Allen Stinnett, Darryl Ashford and Ethan Wragge — had made zero shots from 3-point range.
Matt Dorwart made two, and very well could have had three.
For those casual Creighton fans in the audience, Dorwart is a 6-foot-8 redshirt freshman from Sidney, Neb. He walked on last year and spent the season getting beat on in practice. It earned him a roster spot but it’s likely going to be awhile before he’s ready to help Creighton in games that count.
Still, he contributed when given a chance late in the first half of the exhibition game at Qwest Center Omaha. After seeing only seconds of playing time at the end of Wednesday’s first exhibition game against Missouri Western, Dorwart entered Sunday’s game with about 4½ minutes to play in the first half.
He grabbed a defensive rebound. On Creighton’s second offensive possession after he had entered, Dorwart banked in a 3-pointer from up top. On the next possession, he buried a shot from the corner. Next time down, he launched another from the opposite court that went about halfway down and popped out.
He came out with 1:17 to play having chipped in six points to Creighton’s 52-44 lead. If nothing else, the first 20 minutes were entertaining as UNO used an 18-5 run that saw the Mavericks bury four 3-point shots to take a 33-23 lead.
Creighton countered with a 13-0 run, with Kaleb Korver capping the spurt with a 3-point basket, to regain the lead. Then Dorwart came off the bench to help the Bluejays finish off the half with an eight-point lead.
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