The Bluejays (18-8) also got 14 points apiece from Dane Watts and Booker Woodfox while snapping a two-game losing streak and improving to 9-7 in the Missouri Valley Conference.
The Bears dropped to 13-15 overall and 6-10 in the league after falling to 0-8 in conference road games.
Creighton hit nine first-half 3-pointers and led 48-37 at the break.
The teams traded the lead early until the Jays went on a 9-0 run midway through the half and was never threatened again. Stinnett scored five of his 12 first-half points during that surge.
Witter had 10 points before intermission.
Creighton was in a sharing mood Tuesday, recording assists on 21 of its 33 field goals. Woodfox had a career-high six assists while scoring in double figures off the bench for the eighth straight game.
Watts had seven rebounds, including four on the offensive end, for the Jays, who had a 45-31 edge on the glass and tallied 16 offensive rebounds.
Justin Fuehrmeyer led Missouri State with 14 points while Deven Mitchell had 13.
The Bears used to be known for a suffocating defense that wouldn't let opponents get any uncontested shots, but they have started to lose some of that mystique.
Sure, sometimes MSU is able to crank up the defense, such as in a Feb. 16 win over Evansville in which the Purple Aces managed just 38 points for the game.
Opponents are more frequently scoring in bunches on the Bears. Three times in MSU's last eight games, the opposition has scored 80 or more points. That includes 84 scored by that same Evansville team in the first meeting of the schools in late January.
The Bears have gone 2-6 in those eight games.
Coach Barry Hinson prides himself on the defense his teams play, so this has to be killing him. But until the Bears can make a full commitment to 40 minutes of solid defense, starting with a Saturday visit from Central Michigan, MSU is going to struggle to put together victories.
- Jay (MISSOURI ST BEARS)
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