With a young rotation of players trying to find roles — and a coaching staff unsure at this early stage where those players best fit — Creighton looked disjointed, lacked confidence, and appeared to be a team in search of a floor leader. After sputtering for the better part of 10 minutes, they were tied.
That could easily have been written about Wednesday’s 92-76 season opening win over South Dakota. But it’s actually taken verbatim from my recap of the opener of the 2018-19 season, which coincidentally was also against a middle-of-the-pack Summit League team — a 78-67 win over Western Illinois.