2025-26 Rankings

[Chriscin33]

Really love these OOC games on the schedule so far as this will give us the opportunity to earn that number 1 seed in the East and run through Philly to DC to Indy. That is the path but obviously they have to perform and win but at least we will have the games to do it.

 

[gregbodkin]

always thought Fanta was a smart guy

I never thought that he was a smart guy but now I do!!!

 

[ADORAZ]

ESPN updated Top 25 (5/6/25):

Risers and new entrants to our latest men's top 25

UConn climbs the ranks. Illinois and Creighton join the mix. See the fourth edition of our early top 25.

www.espn.com

#2 UConn
#3 St. John's
#19 Creighton

The entire writeup is all about St. John's vs. UConn. Regardless of whether UConn ends up a spot ahead of us or behind us in the Preseason AP Poll, it's excellent for the conference that these two teams are top 3. Borzello is an AP voter and his ballot is obviously pretty influential, so this type of AP Poll is becoming closer to reality each day. The BE hasn't had a preseason this optimistic, at least at the top of the conference, since realignment.

 

[Marillac2]

ESPN updated Top 25:

Risers and new entrants to our latest men's top 25

UConn climbs the ranks. Illinois and Creighton join the mix. See the fourth edition of our early top 25.

www.espn.com

#2 UConn
#3 St. John's
#19 Creighton

The entire writeup is all about St. John's vs. UConn. Regardless of whether UConn ends up a spot ahead of us or behind us in the Preseason AP Poll, it's excellent for the conference that these two teams are top 3. Borzello is an AP voter and his ballot is obviously pretty influential, so this type of AP Poll is becoming closer to reality each day. We haven't had a preseason this optimistic, at least at the top of the conference, since realignment.

Creighton not getting nearly enough respect.

 

[bucketshardy]

Creighton not getting nearly enough respect.

Recognize similar assessments can be made of our transfers... but Iowa with 7-13 Big 10 record with Freeman/Dix... which are the anchors of Creighton's transfer class... I'm not ready to put Creighton too high...

The Kalk sized hole in their lineup will be extremely tough to replace... matchup nightmare against most every team.

 

[bamafan]

Recognize similar assessments can be made of our transfers... but Iowa with 7-13 Big 10 record with Freeman/Dix... which are the anchors of Creighton's transfer class... I'm not ready to put Creighton too high...

The Kalk sized hole in their lineup will be extremely tough to replace... matchup nightmare against most every team.

Yes they won’t be able to Kalk up the whole at the center position this season.

 

[MJDinkins]

Yes they won’t be able to Kalk up the whole at the center position this season.

Recognize similar assessments can be made of our transfers... but Iowa with 7-13 Big 10 record with Freeman/Dix... which are the anchors of Creighton's transfer class... I'm not ready to put Creighton too high...

The Kalk sized hole in their lineup will be extremely tough to replace... matchup nightmare against most every team.

I thought Creighton recently received a commitment from a freshman seven footer....

 

[bucketshardy]

I thought Creighton recently received a commitment from a freshman seven footer....

 

[austour]

I thought Creighton recently received a commitment from a freshman seven footer....

Men's Basketball Adds Serbian Center Aleksa Dimitrijevic - Creighton University Athletics

OMAHA, Neb. -- Serbian center Aleksa Dimitrijevic has signed a letter-of-intent to enroll at Creighton and join the men's basketball program.

gocreighton.com

Not showing on 247 (my go to at this point) for some reason.

 

[NCJohnnie]

Men's Basketball Adds Serbian Center Aleksa Dimitrijevic - Creighton University Athletics

OMAHA, Neb. -- Serbian center Aleksa Dimitrijevic has signed a letter-of-intent to enroll at Creighton and join the men's basketball program.

gocreighton.com

Not showing on 247 (my go to at this point) for some reason.

Plus Freeman from Iowa is 6'10" 245 and averaged almost 2 blocks per game. They won't be small up front.

 

[Section9]

Plus Freeman from Iowa is 6'10" 245 and averaged almost 2 blocks per game. They won't be small up front.

But will they have lateral quickness..............

 

[ADORAZ]

The last time we were ranked in the Preseason AP was 1999-2000 (#18). Our highest ever Preseason AP ranking was #7 in 1984-85.

This year will be our first Preseason ranking in 26 years, and almost certainly the highest debut in program history.

When I traveled to Providence for the Johnnies - Arkansas game I was annoyed with the outcome, but I wasn't THAT annoyed. The reason is I knew we'd be very good again this upcoming year, which had never been the case after our early Tournament exits the last couple decades (2 senior Lavin teams, 1 senior Mullin team). Also, although we didn't advance as far we hoped for, the season was undoubtedly a success after breaking the 25 year Tournament win/BET Title drought. I always figured our return to national relevance would require a deep NCAA Tournament run, not before then.

Still work to be done (deep run), but couldn't be happier with the current state of our program. I know some don't really care about rankings until well after the season begins, but this has been the most enjoyable offseason by a mile IMO.

 

[vegasman2000]

 

[Demo]

I’m assuming those numbers are for the whole team? Considering the level of players we signed and retention of one maybe two high level players, doing the math that doesn’t seem like a lot of NIL.

 

[L J S A]

I’m assuming those numbers are for the whole team? Considering the level of players we signed and retention of one maybe two high level players, doing the math that doesn’t seem like a lot of NIL.

Incoming transfers. Ejiorfor isn't being factored in.