A month ago, Creighton’s offseason plans were in disarray. Faced with replacing all five starters and 80% of their scoring from last season, Creighton’s offseason got off to a rocky start when the headliner of their incoming class de-committed and two assistant coaches departed. What initially looked like a rebuilding year was now looking like something worse.
Namely, that Greg McDermott’s controversial “plantation” comment had damaged his program beyond repair and squandered any momentum their Sweet 16 run might have produced.
Whether real or perceived, that comment was a convenient thing for detractors to point to any time bad news about the program surfaced — and through the first two months of the offseason there had been nothing but bad news piling up.