INDIANAPOLIS – Creighton will be without coach Greg McDermott when playing Butler in Big East basketball Saturday.
McDermott was suspended from team activities, Creighton announced late Thursday night. He had apologized Tuesday for referencing a “plantation” to his players, a word evocative of enslavement of Black people.
"Specifically, I said: ‘Guys, we got to stick together. We need both feet in. I need everybody to stay on the plantation. I can't have anybody leave the plantation,’" McDermott said.
McDermott said on a pregame radio show Wednesday — before he coached against Villanova — he offered to resign.