Drake wins 1st ranked game in 33 years

Josh Young hit a tie-breaking 3-pointer in overtime and No. 22 Drake celebrated its first national ranking in 33 years with a 68-60 victory over Missouri Valley Conference nemesis Creighton on Tuesday night.

Young, the Valley's leading scorer, had missed the last three games with a sprained right ankle and was wearing a walking boot as recently as Monday. He wasn't much of a factor against the Bluejays until he hit his big 3 from the top of the key to break a 54-54 tie.

Kaleb Korver's 3-pointer with 50 seconds left pulled the Bluejays within 61-59, but the Bulldogs put the game away at the free throw line to extend their school-record winning streak to 16 games.

Drake (17-1, 8-0) matched its win total of last season and won for the first time in seven games in Omaha. The Bulldogs were last ranked in the final poll of the 1974-75 season.

The Bluejays (14-4, 5-3) lost for the first time in six games.

Klayton Korver scored 14 points and Adam Emmenecker had 12 for the Bulldogs while Young finished with eight.

Dane Watts had 13 points, including the 1,000th of his career, for Creighton while Cavel Witter added 12.

Witter's pull-up jumper in the lane tied it 36-all, and then there were 10 lead changes over the final 12:42 of regulation.

The Bluejays had chances to extend a late lead, but Kaleb Korver and Chad Millard missed free throws. That put the Bulldogs in position to tie, and they did when Leonard Houston put back Emmenecker's miss with 23 seconds left.

Millard missed a 3 just before the regulation buzzer.

Neither team did much during a sloppy start to the overtime. Not until Young picked up his dribble and swished a 3. Houston's fastbreak layup put the Bulldogs up 59-54.

The Bulldogs were picked to finish ninth in the Valley after losing four starters from last season. They are just two seasons removed from a 20-year stretch where they never finished above .500.

Drake's only loss came at Saint Mary's (Calif.) on Nov. 10. The Bulldogs own the nation's third-longest winning streak behind No. 1 Memphis and No. 2 Kansas.

Klayton and Kaleb Korver are the younger brothers of Kyle Korver of the Utah Jazz, who played at Creighton.