2018-19 Creighton Men's Basketball
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2018-19 Creighton Men’s Basketball Exhibition Game #1: Winona State at Creighton • Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018 • 7:00 p.m. SID Contact: Rob Anderson • Office Phone: (402) 280-5544 • Cell Phone: (402) 660-5854 • E-mail: [email protected] Winona State Warriors at Creighton Bluejays CHI Health Center Omaha (17,352) • Omaha, Neb. Radio: KOZN 1620 AM, KOOO 101.9 FM, www.1620thezone.com Television: None Series History: Teams have never met in regular-season (0-1 exhibition) Last Meeting: None (0-0 exhibition) October Next Game live stats. Visit www.gocreighton.com and click 27 WINONA STATE (Exh.) 7:00 pm Creighton (0-0 exhibition) takes on Winona State on the small bar graph icon on the scoreboard at (0-1 exhibition) in an exhibition game on Saturday, the top of the page for the event of your choosing. November October 27 to open the 2018-19 season. Home games can also be followed by those who 6 WESTERN ILLINOIS (FSN) 7:30 pm Tip-off on First National Bank Court at CHI Health have mobile devices with internet capability at 11 EAST TENNESSEE STATE% (FS1) 12:30 pm Center Omaha (17,352) in Omaha, Neb., is set for www.gocreightonstats.com. 15 OHIO STATE$ (FS1) 6:00 pm 7:00 p.m. 19 vs. Boise State# 6:30 pm Scouting Creighton 20 vs. St. Bonaventure/Georgia State# TBD Radio Broadcast Information Creighton returns eight lettermen and two starters 21 vs. TBD# TBD KOZN (1620 AM) will broadcast all Creighton from last year’s team that finished 21-12 and tied 28 MONTANA (FS1) 7:30 pm men’s basketball games during the 2018-19 sea- for third in the BIG EAST Conference with a 10-8 son, including Saturday’s exhibition, while KOOO league record. December (101.9 FM) will also broadcast all home games. The Bluejays advanced to its fifth NCAA 1 GONZAGA (FOX) 1:00 pm John Bishop and former Bluejay Josh Dotzler will Tournament in the past seven seasons, where it fell 8 at Nebraska (BTN) 5:00 pm call the action. The audio is also webcast live at to eventual Elite Eight qualifier Kansas State. 14 GREEN BAY (FS1) 8:00 pm 18 at Oklahoma (ESPNU) 8:00 pm www.1620thezone.com. Juniors Davion Mintz (6.1 ppg., 3.1 apg.) and 20 COE (FS1) 7:00 pm Martin Krampelj (11.9 ppg., 8.1 rpg.) lead the 27 UMKC (FS1) 7:00 pm Broadcast Information returners, and sophomores Ty-Shon Alexander 31 at Providence* (FS1) 3:00 pm Saturday’s exhibition against Winona State will not (5.5 ppg.), Mitch Ballock (7.3 ppg.), Jacob Epperson be televised, but it will be video webcast for free at (6.3 ppg.) and transfer Damien Jefferson will be January http://www.gocreighton.com/watch. counted on to play an increased role. 5 at Butler* (FS1) 11:00 am The Bluejays feature just two seniors, Kaleb 9 MARQUETTE* (CBSSN) 6:00 pm Live Stats Information Joseph (4.3 ppg.) and Connor Cashaw. Joseph is 13 VILLANOVA* (FOX) TBD All of Creighton’s games this season will have free transitioning to the off-guard spot, while Cashaw is 16 at St. John’s* (FS1) 5:30 pm 21 at Georgetown* (FS1) 7:30 pm 2018-19 Creighton Basketball Numerical Roster 25 BUTLER* (FS1) (Pink Out) 7:30 pm No. Name Yr. Pos. Ht. Wt. Hometown (High School / Last School) 30 ST. JOHN’S* (FS1) 7:30 pm 1 Davion Mintz Jr. G 6-3 185 Charlotte, N.C. (North Mecklenburg) February 2 Connor Cashaw Sr. G 6-5 200 Lincolnshire, Ill. (Stevenson HS / Rice University) 3 XAVIER* (FSN) 12:00 pm 5 Ty-Shon Alexander So. G 6-4 195 Charlotte, N.C. (Oak Hill Academy) 6 at Villanova* (CBSSN) 7:00 pm 10 Jett Canfield Fr. G 5-10 155 Topeka, Kan. (Hayden) 9 at Seton Hall* (CBSSN) 7:00 pm 11 Marcus Zegarowski Fr. G 6-2 180 Hamilton, Mass. (Tilton School) 13 at Xavier* (CBSSN) 7:30 pm 12 Jordan Scurry Jr. G 6-2 200 Dedham, Mass. (St. Mark’s School) 17 SETON HALL* (FS1) 2:00 pm 13 Christian Bishop Fr. F 6-7 205 Lee’s Summit, Mo. (West) 20 at DePaul* (FSN) 8:00 pm 14 Kaleb Joseph* Sr. G 6-3 185 Nashua, N.H. (Cushing Academy / Syracuse University) 23 GEORGETOWN* (FOX) 1:30 pm 15 Martin Krampelj* Jr. F 6-9 235 Grosuplje, Slovenia (Impact Academy) 23 Damien Jefferson* So. G/F 6-5 200 East Chicago, Ind. (Central HS / Univ. of New Mexico) March 24 Mitch Ballock So. G 6-5 205 Eudora, Kan. (Eudora) 3 at Marquette* (FS1) 2:00 pm 31 Samson Froling Fr. C 7-0 230 Townsville, Australia (Australian Institute of Sport) 6 PROVIDENCE* (CBSSN) 7:00 pm 34 Denzel Mahoney# Jr. G 6-5 225 Oviedo, Fla. (Hagerty HS / Southeast Missouri State Univ.) 9 DEPAUL* (TV TBD) TBD 41 Jacob Epperson So. C 6-11 225 Melbourne, Australia (La Lumiere) *previously redshirted BIG EAST Tournament (New York, N.Y.) #will sit out 2018-19 season as a transfer 13 First Round (FS1) 6/8:30 pm 14 Quarterfinals (FS1) 11:00 am/1:30/6:00/8:30 pm Head Coach: Greg McDermott (Northern Iowa, 1988) 15 Semifinals (FS1) 5:30/8 pm Entering ninth season at Creighton: 187-94 (.665) 16 Championship (FOX) 5:30 pm Entering 25th season as a head coach: 467-289 (.618) Assistant Coaches: Preston Murphy, Alan Huss, Paul Lusk *BIG EAST Conference regular season games % Cayman Islands Classic (Omaha, Neb.) Assistant to the Head Coach: Steve Merfeld # Cayman Islands Classic (George Town, Cayman Islands) Director of Basketball Operations: Jeff Vanderloo $ Gavitt Tipoff Games All times listed are Central and subject to change Video Coordinator: Casey Matthews Home games in BOLD CAPS at CHI Health Center Omaha Volunteer Assistant Coach: Ty Nurse Administrative Assistant: John McKew 2017-18 BIG EAST Standings (FINAL) a graduate transfer from Rice after averaging 15.5 It Gets Earlier Every Year BIG EAST only All Games points per game last winter for the Owls. Saturday’s exhibition game against Winona State Team W L W L Creighton’s freshmen class consists of forward will be held on October 27th, continuing a trend Xavier 15 3 29 6 Christian Bishop, center Samson Froling and of the the season creeping earlier and earlier each Villanova 14 4 36 4 guards Jett Canfield and Marcus Zegarowski. year. Seton Hall 10 8 22 12 Last year’s charity exhibition vs. Nebraska- Creighton 10 8 21 12 Scouting Winona State Omaha was played on October 26th and was the Providence 10 8 21 14 A Division II team located in Winona, Minn., Winona first time the Bluejays have played in October in Butler 9 9 21 14 State went 19-10 last season under the leadership more than 30 years. Marquette 9 9 21 14 of former Creighton student-athlete and assistant Georgetown 5 13 15 15 coach Todd Eisner. WSU was picked to finish Saturday Night Live St. John’s 4 14 16 17 fourth of 16 in a preseason poll of Northern Sun Creighton has played 56 fall exhibition games since DePaul 4 14 11 20 Intercolegiate Conference coaches. the start of the 1981-82 season, but somehow, the Six men averaged at least 9.0 points per game game against Winona State will be the first such 2018-19 Honors & Awards last season, and five of those men return. That exhibition to take place on a Saturday. None group is led by 6-foot-8 senior forward Tommy Exhibition Games By Day Of The Week (Since 1981) Gathje (13.4 ppg., 4.7 rpg.) and junior guard Caleb 14 Sunday 2018-19 BIG EAST Preseason Poll Wagner (12.2 ppg., 4.7 apg.). Also back are Kevion 13 Tuesday 9 Thursday Rk. School (1st place votes) .......... Total Taylor (9.6 ppg., 4.9 rpg.), Devin Whitelow (9.4 Released on Thursday, October 25 8 Friday ppg) and Mason Domask (9.0 ppg.). 6 Monday Last year’s WSU team averaged 78.8 points per Preseason All-BIG EAST Team 6 Wednesday game and shot 47.3 percent from the field, 40.4 First Team 0 Saturday Released on Thursday, October 25 percent from three-point range and 74.1 percent at the line. The Warriors outrebounded foes by 1.2 Crowd Watch Weekly Rankings caroms per contest. Creighton’s largest exhibition attendance in school Date AP USA Today RPI The Warriors lost 82-52 at Loyola (Chicago) on history was 16,317 on Nov. 7, 2014 vs. Sioux Falls. Preseason -- Oct. 25th -- Tuesday night, with Taylor scoring all 22 of Winona Last year’s exhibition game vs. UNC Pembroke State’s points in the first 25 minutes. attracted 15,535 fans. Winona State played in front of a total of 12,953 The Series With Winona State fans at home last season, an average of 796 fans per Creighton and Winona State have never met in the contest. regular-season. Greg McDermott is 3-3 in his career against McDermott’s Exhibition History Winona State in games that count, with all six con- Greg McDermott is 26-0 in exhibition games as tests taking place when he was the head coach at a Division I head coach, including a 10-0 mark at Wayne State. UNI, a 7-0 record at Iowa State, and a 9-0 mark at Creighton. All but one of his triumphs have been The Creighton Coaches by double-digits.