Creighton Basketball: 2020-21 season preview for the Bluejays

After winning a share of the Big East title, Creighton Basketball is looking to have its most successful season ever under Greg McDermott.

Greg McDermott begins his 11th year as the head man of Creighton Basketball, and while the first ten have been pretty successful in Omaha with what would have been six trips to the NCAA Tournament in those ten seasons if last year didn’t come to a grinding halt.

In fact, there’s a chance last year’s 24-7 team that finished tied atop the Big East with Villanova and ranked 8th in the country would’ve been the Bluejays’ best in the postseason under McDermott.

Under McDermott, Creighton has only won less than 20 games once, and on top of the trips to the Big Dance, they were the runner-up in the CBI in his first season and made the NIT Quarterfinals in 2015-16 and 2018-19.  The 24 wins last season were the most for the team since 2017, and they began the non-conference portion of their schedule with an 11-2 mark that included wins over No. 12 Texas Tech and Arizona State.

Last season they went eight deep in their rotation, and a big reason they could be considered a preseason top-10 team is, of those eight players that averaged double-digit minutes, six of them returns.

And even though one of the two not returning is do everything guard Ty-Shon Alexander, McDermott and the Bluejays have enough firepower returning to be considered a title contender and barring any major health issues along the way, another trip to the NCAA Tournament should be nearly a certainty, but for this team, it should no longer be about getting there and more about what they do with the opportunity.