{"id":212679,"date":"2025-12-31T06:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T06:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/212679\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T06:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T06:20:09","slug":"creighton-89-85-butler-dec-30-2025-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/212679\/","title":{"rendered":"Creighton 89-85 Butler (Dec 30, 2025) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OMAHA, Neb. &#8212; \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5105577\/jasen-green\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jasen Green<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5144380\/austin-swartz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin Swartz<\/a> combined for 55 points as Creighton beat Butler 89-85 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>              Green 23 points, six rebounds and five assists for the Bluejays (9-5, 3-0 Big East), while shooting 8 of 11 and 6 of 6 at the line. Swartz scored 22 points while going 8 of 16 (5 for 10 from 3-point range) and added five rebounds. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/4712866\/isaac-traudt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Isaac Traudt<\/a> shot 6 for 12, including 4 for 10 from beyond the arc to finish with 16 points.<\/p>\n<p>              The Bulldogs (10-4, 1-2) were led in scoring by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/4869741\/yohan-traore\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yohan Traore<\/a>, who finished with 20 points and seven rebounds off the bench. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5176517\/michael-ajayi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Ajayi<\/a> added 16 points and 13 rebounds before fouling out with 4:42 remaining. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5060688\/jamie-kaiser-jr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jamie Kaiser Jr<\/a>. also had 16 points.<\/p>\n<p>              Creighton used an early 12-0 run and a 13-3 run to go into halftime ahead of Butler 44-35. Traudt scored 12 points in the half. Despite a late, 11-3 run from Butler, Green&#8217;s 15-point second half helped Creighton close out the four-point victory.<\/p>\n<p>              &#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>              The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OMAHA, Neb. &#8212; \u2014 Jasen Green and Austin Swartz combined for 55 points as Creighton beat Butler 89-85&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-212679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}