The UTRGV Vaqueros and the Creighton Bluejays meet Wednesday in college basketball action from the CHI Health Center Omaha. We will look at this from a betting perspective and determine the best bets for this game. Here is a Creighton vs. UTRGV prediction.

UTRGV summary

The UTRGV Vaqueros come into this fresh off their season-opening 87-67 loss to Nebraska last time out. After this game, UTRGV will hit the road for a game against Charleston Southern.

Vaqueros wants to make a huge upset

KT Raimey had a team-high 14 points, including a pair of threes, while Cliff Davis had a team-high 12 points with four threes and seven rebounds. Tomy Gankhuyag and DK Thorn each had 11 points with 3 threes to round out the group of double-digit scorers for UTRGV in the losing effort. Hasan Abdul Hakim also added seven rebounds and six assists of his own. As a team, UTRGV is averaging 67 PPG on 38.7% shooting, 31.7% from three and 66.7% at the foul line so far this season.

Creighton Summary

The Creighton Bluejays come into this matchup looking to build on a decent 2024-2025 season, finishing 25-10 overall, including a 14-6 mark in Big East play. Creighton lost to Providence in the quarterfinals of the Big East Tournament, but was still invited to the NCAA Tournament with an at-large bid. The Bluejays defeated Akron and Oregon in the first two rounds of the Big Dance before falling to Tennessee in the Sweet 16. The Bluejays lost quite a bit of talent from last year, including Trey Alexander, Baylor Scheierman and Francisco Farabello.

The good news for Creighton is that they brought back Ryan Kalkbrenner (17.3 PPG, 7.6 RPG) and Steven Ashworth (11.1 PPG, 4.2 APG), while also bringing in a pair of strong transfers in Pop Isaacs ( 15.8 PPG, 3.5 APG) from Texas. Tech and Jamiya Neal (11 PPG, 5.4 RPG) from Arizona State. Time will tell if Creighton can repeat their success and make another trip to the NCAA Tournament in March and make a deep run. The Creighton Bluejays next play Fairleigh Dickinson, Houston Christian, Kansas City, Nebraska and San Diego State.

Why the Creighton Bluejays will win

• Texas-Rio Grande Valley has lost each of its last 15 games.
• Creighton has won each of its last eight evening games against non-Conference opponents at CHI Health Center Omaha.

Creighton vs UTRGV prediction

I’m here at Creighton. UTRGV continued to hang around with Nebraska, but this Creighton team has been reloaded and is not a team I want to root for if UTRGV is the alternative. Creighton defeated less opposition in the non-conference portion of their schedule last year, with wins of 51 over Florida A&M, 29 over North Dakota State and 32 over Texas Southern. I think UTRGV will suffer the same fate. Give me Creighton.