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Washington, D.C. (SportsNetwork.com) - Having lost two in a row and three of their last four, the Creighton Bluejays will finish up a three-game road trip against the 25th-ranked Georgetown Hoyas at the Verizon Center in a Big East Conference showdown. Creighton has dropped back-to-back contests against North Texas (62-58) and Providence (65-53), which opened the teams Big East slate. Creighton comes in with a 9-5 record this season, and is just 1-3 away from home. Georgetown saw a three-game win streak come to an end on Wednesday with a 70-53 loss to Big East foe Xavier. The Hoyas are clinging onto their No. 25 distinction with an 8-4 record. But at home, the Hoyas are 6-1 this season. This will be the fourth all-time meeting between Creighton and Georgetown. The Bluejays own a 2-1 series advantage, although the last time these teams met (last season) it was the Hoyas who blasted the Bluejays, 75-63, in Washington. Providence struggled for a brief period this season, and Creighton sure wishes the Friars woes had carried over to the game on Wednesday. But Providence put forward LaDontae Henton (35 points, eight rebounds) to work, as the big man played the entire contest with obvious results. Creighton shot just 35.8 percent from the floor in the loss, and was led in scoring by Geoffrey Groselle, who tallied 14 points off the bench. Austin Chatman netted 11 points, but made just 3-of-11 shooting from the floor in the losing effort. Scoring was always a big plus for Creighton in the Doug McDermott years, but the numbers have noticeably dropped since McDermotts graduation in the offseason. The Bluejays come into this contest netting 70.8 ppg - still very respectable - and are led by Chatmans 13.7 ppg mark and 63 assists on the season. Isaiah Zierden is the only other Creighton player to average a double- digit point total so far, coming in at 11.6 ppg . Devin Brooks tops the Bluejays roster in rebounding, grabbing 5.2 boards per outing coming into the clash against Georgetown. The Hoyas did the best they could to keep pace with an offensively dominant Xavier team in the first half of Wednesdays contest, as the Musketeers went into halftime with a six-point advantage. But the Cincinnati-based Big East program opened up its largest lead (19 points) with under a minute to go in the game to cruise past the Hoyas. DVauntes Smith-Rivera led the way for Georgetown in terms of scoring, tallying 18 points in the losing effort. Joshua Smith registered 10 points in 21 minutes of action, and the visiting Hoyas made just 36.3 percent of their shots in the loss. Smith-Rivera and Smith are the teams only two scorers this season averaging a double-digit point total for Georgetown. Smith-Rivera comes into this clash with Creighton netting 15.0 ppg, while Smith checks in at 12.6 ppg. 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Tristan Jackson returned a missed field goal 129 yards early in the fourth quarter as the Roughriders beat the B.C. Cheap Kevin Durant Shoes . Louis Cardinals placed outfielder Allen Craig on the 15-day disabled list with a right knee contusion on Sunday.ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Jared Spurgeon spent a month watching the Minnesota Wild from the press box. When he returned to action Tuesday night, he didnt waste any time making an impact. Spurgeon had two assists in his return from injury, Darcy Kuemper made 34 saves and the Wild defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning 2-1. One of Minnesotas top defencemen, Spurgeon was placed on injured reserve Jan. 4 after he hurt his left foot against Buffalo. While the Wild went 8-4-2 in his absence, they were eager to get him back in the lineup -- and he was eager to get back into the flow. "I think theres lots of adrenaline that helps you," Spurgeon said. "At the start I was a little nervous being off for a month, but they threw me right out there for the opening shift and that helped me really calm down and get my feet wet for that first one." Spurgeon got started early, setting up Nino Niederreiter for his fifth goal of the season 9 seconds into a power play in the first period. Early in the third, Spurgeon helped the Wild double their lead when he fed Dany Heatley in the slot for his 11th. Spurgeon ended up playing 21:12, third-most among Minnesota defencemen. "Hes taken really good care of himself while hes been out," Wild coach Mike Yeo said. "To be able to come in and play at the level that he did tonight just shows you how smart of a player he is." The Lightning pulled within a goal with just more than 6 minutes to play when Valtteri Filppula tipped in Martin St. Louis pass at the goalmouth for his 20th of the season. Tampa Bay buzzed around the net the rest of the way, but Kuemper stopped Alex Killorn and St. Louis from in close, and Tyler Johnsons shot hit the post in the final 40 seconds. Lightning coach Jon Cooper was hoping to see a little more fire out of his club at the end of a 1-3 road trip. "I dont know how much courage we had going to the net tonight, until the end," Cooper said. "Hence, its shocking wherre our goal was scored, standing right in front of the net.dddddddddddd" While the Lightning are still clinging to second place in the Atlantic Division, goalie Ben Bishop said theyll welcome a return home for two games before the Olympic break. "I dont know if you want to say were tired, but its been a long road trip," Bishop said. "We dont want to make excuses, but weve got to be better." Bishop, who finished with 24 saves, was tested often throughout the first two periods, stopping Zach Parise on a breakaway with 5 minutes to play in the first period and stoning Mikael Granlund on a point-blank backhand early in the second. Bishop was shaken up midway through the second when Parise fired a slap shot that hit the goalie in the head, but he remained in the game. Meanwhile, Kuemper made a nifty glove save to stop Johnson on a breakaway late in the second and stood tall all night in his 11th straight start, a franchise record for rookie goalies. The Wild are 6-3-2 in that span, but Yeo was impressed with how Kuemper rebounded from his last two starts, a loss at Colorado in which he was pulled and an overtime defeat at Calgary. "How do you come back to the rink the next day and be mentally tough enough to come in and perform at the level that you need to? Thats what was very impressive about him tonight," Yeo said. "I liked his game an awful lot." While the Wild got Spurgeon back, they had another setback on the blue line 2 minutes into the game when defenceman Marco Scandella got tangled up with Johnson. Scandella skated off the ice with assistance, favouring his right leg, and did not return. Yeo labeled him "doubtful" for Minnesotas pre-Olympics finale Thursday against Nashville. NOTES: Filppula returned after missing Saturdays game at Montreal with a lower-body injury. ... St. Louis assist gave him 966 points, moving him past former Canadiens great Maurice Richard into 85th place on the NHLs career list. ' ' '