Big East Basketball: Preview of all week 1 matchups for 2021-22 season

NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 13: The Big East logo on the floor before the Big East Men's Basketball Tournament Championship college basketball game between the Georgetown Hoyas and the Creighton Bluejays at Madison Square Garden on March 13, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** /

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Big East Basketball matchups to watch on Wednesday and Thursday

Wednesday, November 10th

Fairleigh Dickinson @ Seton Hall
6:00 PM on FS1
Prudential Center, Newark, NJ

Coppin State @ DePaul
8:00 PM on FS1
Wintrust Arena, Chicago, IL

Thursday, November 11th

Sacred Heart @ Providence
5:30 PM on FS1
Dunkin Donuts Center, Providence, RI

Kennesaw State @ Creighton
7:30 PM on FS1
CHI Health Center Omaha, Omaha, NE

Game of the day: The game to watch over the course of Wednesday and Thursday is that of Creighton and Kennesaw State. Greg McDermott’s sweet sixteen showing last year is well and gone, with all five starters not returning to Creighton. They have more to replace than quite possibly anyone in the nation, but they answered with the highest recruiting class in school history.

Per 247 Sports, Creighton had the 7th-highest recruiting class in the nation, and it’ll be put to the test early. With Shereef Mitchell out, the Jays will rely on freshman Ryan Nembhard to man the point. Northwest Missouri State transfer Ryan Hawkins can score in bunches and is another guy to keep eye on.

Kennesaw State will look to utilize graduate student Spencer Rodgers (16.3 ppg) quite a bit against a less experienced Creighton team. Third-year coach Amir Abdur-Rahim is slowly making progress in the ASUN and it would not be all that crazy to predict them to continue that this year. Last year, Creighton handled the Owls a 93-57 loss in Omaha.

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