The opening weekend of the college hoops season continues when Creighton plays host to Alcorn State on Sunday night. The Braves were 18-14 a year ago but ranked just 285th by KenPom because once they got to SWAC play — the worst conference in D1 by a fair margin — they feasted on a schedule heavy with teams ranked in the bottom 30 of D1, while losing three times to the best team in their league (and eventual NCAA Tourney representative) Texas Southern.
Returning from that team is leading scorer Reginal Johnson, a 6’5″ 205-pound forward who averaged 15.