Creighton enters the 2021-22 with eight newcomers (five freshmen, one first-year walk-on and two grad transfers) and two redshirt freshmen. They’re faced with replacing 84.2% of their points scored and 81.9% of the total minutes played a year ago. Oh yeah, and they have two new assistant coaches, too.
How will that young team measure up to the rest of the Big East? They’ll find out right away because the Jays open up with perennial favorite Villanova on Dec. 17, in a rare Friday night game at CHI Health Center. Jay Wright’s team seems like an automatic pick to win the league based on what they return from a club who won the conference a year ago.