Creighton University Athletics
Men's Basketball Ranked 4th in NET; 10th in AP Poll
12/4/2023 12:04:00 PM | Men's Basketball
Bluejays soar after a pair of impressive road wins
OMAHA, Neb. -- Two dominant road wins catapulted the Creighton men's basketball team to 10th in this week's Associated Press Top 25 poll. The Bluejays are also 11th in this week's USA Today Coaches poll, and fourth in the NCAA's initial NET rankings of the winter.
The improvement from 15th in the AP poll and 14th in the Coaches poll came after Creighton won 79-65 at Oklahoma State on Thursday and 89-60 at Nebraska on Sunday. The win over the Cowboys was OSU's second-largest margin in a non-conference home loss since 1978, while Sunday's triumph was NU's largest non-conference home loss since 1938.
The Bluejays are now 7-1 overall.
This marks the 26th time in program history that Creighton has been in the AP Top 10 at any point, with all but one of those weeks happening under head coach Greg McDermott. Creighton's best AP ranking in program history is seventh, done five times (Jan. 16, 2017, March 10, 2020, March 18, 2020, Jan. 7, 2021 and Nov. 28, 2022).
Including today's ranking, Creighton has now been ranked by the AP 127 times in program history, with 99 of those under the direction of McDermott. Creighton is 159-64 all-time as a ranked team, including a 125-52 figure under McDermott. Creighton has been ranked at least one week in 10 of McDermott's 14 seasons on The Hilltop after doing it just five different seasons in program history before his 2010 arrival.
Creighton is one of three BIG EAST Conference schools in the top 25, joining No. 5 Connecticut and No. 8 Marquette. Arizona is atop the poll, just ahead of Kansas and Houston.
The Bluejays will focus on final exams this week before taking the floor on Saturday at 1 p.m. against Central Michigan. That game will be broadcast on FS2 and 1620 The Zone.
USA Today Top 25 Coaches Poll
Dec. 4, 2023
Rk School W-L PTS
1 Arizona (26) 7-0 792
2 Houston (5) 8-0 742
3 Kansas (1) 7-1 738
4 Purdue 7-1 706
5 Connecticut 7-1 668
6 Baylor 8-0 630
7 Marquette 6-2 583
8 Gonzaga 6-1 579
9 Florida Atlantic 7-1 477
10 North Carolina 7-1 476
11 Creighton 7-1 475
12 Colorado State 8-0 376
13 Tennessee 4-3 352
BYU 7-0 352
15 Miami (Fla.) 6-1 263
16 Texas 6-1 252
17 Kentucky 6-2 229
18 Illinois 6-1 207
19 Texas A&M 6-2 194
20 Clemson 7-0 180
21 Duke 5-3 175
22 Oklahoma 7-0 136
23 Virginia 7-1 134
24 James Madison 8-0 132
25 Ohio State 7-1 101
Others receiving votes: Wisconsin (6-2) 66; Alabama (5-2) 55; TCU (7-0) 53; Michigan State (4-3) 42; Princeton (8-0) 38; San Diego State (7-1) 34; Northwestern (6-1) 24; Iowa State (6-2) 23; Mississippi (7-0) 23; Auburn (5-2) 21; UCLA (5-2) 17; Nevada (6-0) 13; Memphis (5-2) 9; Cincinnati (7-0) 8; Florida State (4-3) 8; Southern California (5-3) 5; Utah (5-2) 5; Villanova (6-3) 5; Mississippi State (6-2) 2.
Associated Press Top 25
Dec. 4, 2023
Rk School W-L PTS
1 Arizona (59) 7-0 1571
2 Kansas (1) 7-1 1460
3 Houston (3) 8-0 1432
4 Purdue 7-1 1407
5 Connecticut 7-1 1340
6 Baylor 8-0 1234
7 Gonzaga 6-1 1146
8 Marquette 6-2 1134
9 North Carolina 7-1 1004
10 Creighton 7-1 921
11 Florida Atlantic 7-1 901
12 Texas 6-1 763
13 Colorado State 8-0 755
14 BYU 7-0 732
15 Miami (Fla.) 6-1 638
16 Kentucky 6-2 544
17 Tennessee 4-3 509
18 James Madison 8-0 381
19 Oklahoma 7-0 355
20 Illinois 6-1 322
21 Texas A&M 6-2 306
22 Duke 5-3 296
23 Wisconsin 6-2 245
24 Clemson 7-0 227
25 San Diego State 7-1 168
Others receiving votes: Virginia 148, Ohio State 122, TCU 87, Northwestern 77, Alabama 50, Michigan State 46, Princeton 35, UCLA 23, Cincinnati 21, Mississippi 15, Arkansas 14, Providence 13, South Carolina 9, Villanova 8, Colorado 5, Memphis 5, Nevada 4, Georgia Tech 2.
