Men's Basketball Earns Fourth Straight AP Top 20 Ranking
2/5/2024 12:00:00 PM | Men's Basketball
Bluejays play a pair of road games this week
OMAHA, Neb. -- The Creighton men's basketball team slipped six spots to 19th in the Associated Press poll and five lines to 18th in the USA Today Coaches poll released on Monday. The Bluejays are also No. 16 (down three spots) in the updated version of the NET and No. 26 (down five spots) in the KPI.
It's the 13th time in 14 polls this season that Creighton has been included in both the AP and Coaches rankings.
Creighton fell to 16-6 overall and 7-4 in BIG EAST play after losing its lone game last week to Butler, 99-98.
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). CU owns 27 weeks in the AP Top 10 in its history, with all but one of those recognitions coming during Greg McDermott's tenure. Creighton's best AP rank this year is eighth, done three times.
Including today's ranking, Creighton has now been ranked by the AP 134 times in program history, with 107 of those under the direction of McDermott. Creighton is 166-69 all-time as a ranked team, including a 132-57 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. 1 Connecticut and No. 7 Marquette. The top five teams in the poll are Connecticut, Purdue, North Carolina, Kansas and Houston.
Creighton is also one of five schools in the country with both its men's and women's teams ranked in this week's AP Top 25, joining Baylor, North Carolina, South Carolina and Connecticut.
The Bluejays play a pair of road games this week, starting on Wednesday with a 7:30 p.m. Central tip at Providence.
Associated Press Top 25
Feb. 5, 2024
Rk   School   W-L    PTS
1Â Â Â Connecticut (45)Â Â Â 20-2Â Â Â 1509
2Â Â Â Purdue (16)Â Â Â 21-2Â Â Â 1479
3   North Carolina   18-4   1352
4   Kansas   18-4   1322
5   Houston   19-3   1273
6   Tennessee   16-5   1211
7   Marquette   17-5   1173
8   Arizona   17-5   1077
9   Duke   16-5   924
10   Illinois   17-5   893
11   Wisconsin   16-6   838
12   Auburn   18-4   818
13   Baylor   16-5   730
14   Iowa State   16-5   700
15   South Carolina   19-3   564
16   Alabama   16-6   520
17   Kentucky   15-6   513
18   Dayton   18-3   493
19   Creighton   16-6   484
20   Florida Atlantic   18-4   431
21Â Â Â BYUÂ Â Â 16-5Â Â Â 425
22   Utah State   19-3   286
23   Texas Tech   16-5   156
24   San Diego State   17-5   141
25   New Mexico   18-4   123  Â
Others receiving votes: Saint Mary's 73, TCU 72, Indiana State 53, Boise State 49, Colorado State 43, Virginia 32, Texas 22, Oklahoma 17, Mississippi 10, Washington State 6, Memphis 5, Appalachian State 4, Gonzaga 2, Grand Canyon 1, Michigan State 1.
USA Today Top 25 Coaches Poll
Feb. 5, 2024
Rk   School   W-L    PTS
1Â Â Â Connecticut (25)Â Â Â 20-2Â Â Â 793
2Â Â Â Purdue (7)Â Â Â 21-2Â Â Â 775
3   North Carolina   18-4   710
4   Kansas   18-4   683
5   Houston   19-3   662
6   Tennessee   16-5   647
7   Marquette   17-5   573
8   Arizona   17-5   525
9   Wisconsin   16-6   505
10   Duke   16-5   469
11   Auburn   18-4   450
12   Illinois   17-5   430
13   Baylor   16-5   394
14   Iowa State   16-5   387
15   Kentucky   15-6   297
16   Alabama   16-6   285
17   Dayton   18-3   265
18   Creighton   16-6   261
19Â Â Â BYUÂ Â Â 16-5Â Â Â 234
20   South Carolina   19-3   221
21   Utah State   19-3   167
22   Florida Atlantic   18-4   161
23   Texas Tech   16-5   133
24   San Diego State   17-5   68
25   New Mexico   18-4   60
Others receiving votes: Saint Mary's 57; Indiana State 45; TCU 36; Colorado State 32; Virginia 17; Oklahoma 12; Grand Canyon 12; Northwestern 8; Boise State 7; Gonzaga 6; Texas 5; Michigan State 4; Ole Miss 2; Appalachian State 2.
