Year: | 2023–24 |
Prev Year: | 2022–23 |
Next Year: | 2024–25 |
Sport: | Basketball |
Team: | Creighton Bluejays |
Conference: | Big East Conference |
Short Conf: | Big East |
Record: | 25–10 |
Conf Record: | 14–6 |
Aprank: | 13 |
Coachrank: | 11 |
Hc Year: | 14th |
Ac1 Year: | 3rd |
Asst Coach2: | Jalen Courtney-Williams |
Ac2 Year: | 3rd |
Ac3 Year: | 1st |
Tourney Result: | Sweet Sixteen |
The 2023–24 Creighton Bluejays men's basketball team represented Creighton University in the 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Bluejays, coached by 14th-year head coach Greg McDermott, played their home games at the CHI Health Center Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska as members of the Big East Conference.
In the 2024 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, the Bluejays won their first round matchup against Akron before following with another victory over Oregon in the round of 32. Unfortunately, their season would end in the Sweet 16 to Tennessee, a team led by National Player of the Year Dalton Knecht.
The Creighton Bluejays men's basketball team drew an average home attendance of 17,269 in 16 games in 2023-24.[1]
The Bluejays finished the 2022–23 season 24–13, 14–6 in Big East play to finish in third place. As the No. 3 seed in the Big East tournament, they defeated Villanova before losing to Xavier in the semifinals. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament as the No. 6 seed in the South Region, where they defeated NC State, Baylor, and Princeton to reach the Elite Eight for the first time since 1941. There they lost to San Diego State.[2]
Name | Number | Pos. | Height | Weight | Year | Hometown | Reason for departure | |
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Ben Shtolzberg | 1 | G | 6'4" | 200 | Sophomore | Transferred to UCSB[3] | ||
2 | G | 6'0" | 170 | Junior | Transferred to Gonzaga[4] | |||
Shereef Mitchell | 4 | G | 6'1" | 170 | Senior | Transferred to Ohio[5] | ||
John Christofilis | 15 | G | 6'3" | 195 | Junior | Transferred to Seattle[6] | ||
15 | F | 6'8" | 195 | Junior | Transferred to Kansas State[7] |
Name | Number | Pos. | Height | Weight | Year | Hometown | Previous School | |
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Steven Ashworth | 1 | G | 6'1" | 170 | Senior | Utah State | ||
Jonathan Lawson | 2 | G | 6'6" | 188 | Sophomore | Memphis | ||
Issac Traudt | 41 | F | 6'10" | 235 | RS Freshman | Virginia |
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See also: 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings.