All week, we’ll travel back in time two decades to look back at the first NCAA Tournament team of the Dana Altman Era: the 1998-99 MVC Tourney Champion Bluejays. Today in Part One we look at how the team was built piece-by-piece.
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In the spring of 1994, Dana Altman left Kansas State to take the reigns of a Creighton program that had fallen on hard times. The wreckage of the Rick Johnson Era left a crater: single-digit win totals, regular crowds of 1,500 fans at a desolate Civic Auditorium, and a very real fear that Creighton’s President, the Rev.