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After 21-plus minutes Wednesday night of the most forgettable basketball anyone could want to see, Creighton gave 17,393 witnesses at the CenturyLink Center a finish to remember.

The Bluejays rallied from an 18-point second-half deficit to shock No. 18 Oklahoma 65-63. The comeback was Creighton’s second-largest at CenturyLink, which opened in 2003 and has been the site of an unprecedented string of success the past three seasons.

There was no Doug McDermott or Ethan Wragge or Grant Gibbs or Jahenns Manigat around to bail the Bluejays out of the jam they found themselves in when coach Greg McDermott called time out with Oklahoma leading 42-24 with 18:30 to play.

What the Bluejays did have, the coach said, were some fans who “wouldn’t let us quit, wouldn’t let us die.”

“When we took that timeout, we had a defeated look on our faces,” said McDermott, whose team is now 3-0 for the fifth time in his five-year tenure as coach. “That timeout wasn’t about X’s and O’s. It was about who we want to be.

“Tonight, a team came in here that knew who they were and punched us right in the mouth. We didn’t know how to respond. In the second half, our team found itself.”