Peak scored 13 points and Pryor 12, but the Hoyas as a team shot only 18-for-55 (32.7 percent) from the field and only 5-for-23 (21.7 percent) from three-point range against the Friars. With a conference record of 1–5 and an overall record of 10–9, Georgetown began a stretch of three straight games in seven days against ranked conference opponents. First they visited No. 22 Xavier. The Musketeers entered the game having lost three games in a row, all against ranked Big East teams, their longest losing streak in three years. Xavier clung to a 34–33 lead at halftime, but pulled out to a 12-point advantage in the second half. The Hoyas came back to tie the game at 58–58, but Xavier then went on a decisive 12–3 scoring run to take a 70–61 lead. Rodney Pryor scored 23 points and L. J. Peak finished with 12, but fouling and rebounding undid the Hoyas; the Musketeers repeatedly drew fouls by driving the basket and went 36-for-49 from the free-throw line, while the Hoyas made 11 out of 14 free throws. Xavier won 86–75, handing Georgetown its sixth loss in seven games and dropping the Hoyas to 10–10 on the season and 1–6 in the Big East. In play against ranked teams, Georgetown had lost four straight games and nine of its last ten. Georgetown next returned to the Verizon Center to host No. 16 Creighton. The Bluejays were the second-best shooting team in NCAA Division I at 52.8 percent from the field, and tenth in three-point shooting at 40.8 percent, but had suffered a major loss when a season-ending knee injury sidelined their point guard, senior Maurice Watson Jr., nine days earlier during a game against Xavier. Jonathan Mulmore made his first start as a Hoya. Rodney Pryor had an outstanding first half in which he dunked several times, sank two of his three three-pointers, and scored 15 points. Thanks in part to a 13–2 scoring run, Georgetown led 39–27 at the half. The Hoyas extended their lead to as many as 22 points in the second half and never led by fewer than 14 points during the last 15:32 of the game. Georgetown cruised to a 71–51 upset victory. Creighton shot only 34.5 percent from the field and only 1-for-18 (5.6 percent) from three-point range, and it was the Bluejays′ lowest-scoring game of the season.