Bluejay Fan: A person who attended Creighton University or grew up, and/or lives in the Omaha metro and cares more about Bluejay Athletics more than any other college program. Bluejay fans hate Nebraska Athletics, period.

Jaysker: Person that lives in Omaha, and follows Nebraska football, watches the games, and wants the team to be successful while also being knowledgeable about the game of basketball and cheers for and wants Creighton to be successful as well.

Husker Fan: Person that puts football in such high regard that they can't possibly believe anyone would care about basketball more than football. And they love football so much that the idea of a true basketball first Creighton fan creates cognitive dissonance in their minds, causing them to label all Bluejays fans Jayskers whether they are or not. Husker fans are the alter ego of the Jaysker. Because they care about Nebraska football, they hate Jayskers for cheering for Creighton basketball instead of Nebrasketball, while ironically not caring enough about Nebrasketball themselves to know who the players are or watch the games. You will know a true douche husker fan when they call you a Jaysker, and then can't name more then 3 players on their own team when challenged.

Nebrasketball fans: True fans of Nebrasketball. They live almost exclusively in Lincoln. They are famous for selling out their arena 3 season in a row because their seats cost about as much as a Big Mac per game. And you better damn well believe they care more about the football team than the basketball team.

Tonight on the show we will be joined by Gary Parrish from CBS Sports. We will have our minute with Merf segment and will be discussing Creighton Volleyball and the OWH article suggesting that Creighton schedule UNO. All that and more at 6 pm on 1620 the Zone.

Jays favored by 19 tonight. Big target on their back now that they're ranked in the top ten. Hopefully they respond accordingly. Corey and I have the pregame show on 1620 the Zone from 6 pm to 7 pm. Tim and Ravi have the post game show live from DJ's Dugout downtown after the game.

Yes, Mo’s the leader of the team, does a fantastic job running the offense and is probably the best player on the team. And yes, Marcus is a supremely gifted off guard unlike anything Creighton’s had in years. But, is it totally crazy to say that Khyri has been the best Jay so far this season and Marcus has arguably been the 4th or 5th best? Cause if I had to rate the guys after watching four games, I might say Khyri, Mo, Cole, Marcus, Justin, Zach, Z, rest of bench. Also, it’s a small sample size, but if you look at stats, especially advanced stats, he’s standing above everyone else getting minutes at this point. All that’s kind of skewed a bit by (a) how much teams likely prepare for Mo and Marcus rather than Khyri, and (b) those two guys being higher usage guys than Khyri, but it’s still worth noting.

Anyway, I didn’t really stop to think about it until I saw this from Jeff Goodman:
“This team is balanced with Maurice Watson Jr., Cole Huff, Marcus Foster and redshirt freshman big man Justin Patton.”

Fair enough, but if Khyri keeps playing even remotely as well as he’s playing now, he won’t be left off many more lists like the above.

Coach Mac said that Zach tore a tendon and some ligaments in his left ankle. He will most likely be out until February. I've been told that red-shirting him is a possibility.

Heath and I will post reports from St Thomas on this thread including game previews/updates.

Currently have a layover in Charlotte ready to board in an hour to St Thomas. Over half the plane from Omaha to here were Jays fans.

To me this has the feel of the Anahiem trip a few years ago. We were riding high and we went there and laid an egg. I know the coaches have already addressed this with the team. Hope this is different outcome. We certainly have the toughest side of the draw.

I can't believe this game is already here. Here is Tim's preview against the Jays game against Top 10 ranked Wisconsin. I'm anxious to see what the line will be on the game.

https://creighton.rivals.com/news/wisconsin-preview-42

This game is near and dear to my heart because I went to Wayne State College. Here is a link to my preview for the game. https://creighton.rivals.com/news/basketball-season-is-here-

What are you most looking forward to seeing on Friday?

I want to see the health of some players and what position Kobe Paras plays while he's on the floor.

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Evan Daniels ‏@EvanDaniels 4m4 minutes agoParadise, NV
Former UCLA signee Kobe Paras just committed to Creighton, per his coach William Middlebrooks.

Welcome Kobe!

@banter heath When is the closed scrimmage against Mizzou? Will you be able to attend and provide updates/observations?

Anyone the date when fall camp starts?

Heath - Will you be attending practices this year for observations?

Ed took an unofficial to Creighton today and was offered a scholarship. It's his first offer. He's a 6-foot-7 small forward with a 6'11.5" wingspan and an advanced skill set. He needs to add muscle and develop better shot-selection, but he's only 15 or 16.

I'm going to try to get a recruiting report up on NebraskaHSHoops.com later today.

Today is opening Day! Matt Warren on the bump tonight at Fresno State.
Sophmore LHP Ricky Thomas is going for Fresno State tonight. Sounds like he will be a very high draft pick eventually after tearing up the Cape Cod League this Summer. He went 9-0 with a 0.92 ERA this summer. Should be a very tough matchup for the Jays.

By now I'm sure all of your have heard about Ras's comments to the Wichita Eagle about pining for WSU and Gonzaga to join the Big East. And that for the first time since reconfiguration, expansion will be a topic of convo at the conference's business meeting in May. Other than who might be considered, I'm curious about what the pulse is amongst the fans for expansion.

I'm in favor as long as the teams brought in make the tournament and thus increase (not water down) the number of NCAA tourney units earned per capita, because that is the only way that expansion makes the whole better. And if those are the kinds of teams you bring in, it doesn't affect anyone adversely from playing an "unbalanced" schedule if the conference is tough top to bottom. I couldn't give a crap about the round robin schedule argument if it places a couple more teams in the tournament each year, thus providing our conference more opportunities to get teams to the Final 4. The problem is a lack of desirable candidates. You could convince me to add VCU and Dayton... that's about it.

starting a thread here--getting ready for tomorrow. We will post links to our stories plus add insight to what we saw. Ravi will have full coverage starting Friday

Hunter was at the NIT game last night and I expect them to announce his commitment later on tonight or first thing in the morning.

Would like to hear everyone's views. Do you think there needs to be a change at head coach? And if so do you think there will be a change? Or should we just say screw it and give up on baseball and move games back to CU sports complex to save money?

I'll kick it off. On the latter I say no. I truly feel we can be successful here- even on a national level with the right coaches and resources. Question is will that happen? I think with the right coach and success on the ground floor level money will start to come in and we can generate those resources.

Which takes me back to points 1 and 2. Yes I think it's time for a change. When we joined the Big East Ed said CU needed to dominate the league. So by his own standards he had failed- hugely. Big money donors to baseball and former players are making noise- many wanting a change. Others just don't like the style of play and the type of player he recruits. I can't tell you the number of people I have run into the last week or so that have all said the same think-we need a new coach.

Now will it happen? A big part of that has to do with what kind of ultimatums Ed has been given. If nothing has been said then it's pretty tough to fire somebody after 38 wins. But if part of his review is "Hey we have to win the BE and advance the program or we need to have another talk ". Then yeah maybe it could happen. You also have to have someone in mind. First name on the list of course is Hendry. Bruce loves him, I think he wants to come back and it would create a tremendous about of buzz. We would have to throw money at him of course and he has been away from the game awhile so having assistant close to the college game would be important. Keeping a guy like Rich Wallace around would make sense.

Do I think it will happen? No

I figured since the transfer thread is getting pretty long I would start another one and begin this one with some up to date news.

AGAIN KEEP THIS INFO HERE/PRIVATE

It will be announced in a couple of days that Malik Albert will be transferring. It was a mutual decision.

The staff is waiting on Ricky Doyle to make his decision as of right now, there are no other visits planned until he decides where he is going. Sounds like the staff will take on a transfer still if Doyle decides to go elsewhere.

So what now? Do those close to the program expect to be playing in the NIT? Reading some of the post game comments and listening to the presser it sounds like Coach Mac and Co. feel somewhat satisfied with playing "meaningful" games late in the season, exceeding preseason expectations within the BE, and taking a step forward from last year by getting back to being competitive. Coach Mac seemed to welcome an NIT invite and even pushed for it a little by saying he thought they showed they were an NIT team.

I guess they met my expectations this year, but March is so much more fun when the Jays are dancing! Here is to an off-season of getting healthy, trying to improve next year's roster, and building off the good start to the 2017 class.

Davion has committed to Creighton! Announcement soon.

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Here we go. 6'5 So. Doesn't shoot 3's, but his stats are impressive.

Mo will declare for the draft, but won't sign with an agent. Seems like a good move for him - hear from scouts what he needs to work on his senior year. I don't see him getting drafted.

Hope you all had a chance to look at the story we did on Mac's recruiting classes. As we said in the article three different people could rate these players and probably come up with some different numbers. But we think we were fairly spot on with the ratings and rankings. Nothing earth shattering but does point out how the one class in Mac's third year hurt us down the road. Thought on this rainy day I'd open this thread for discussion on the story and the classes.

6'3" Point Guard transfer from Syracuse. He will sit one year and have two remaining.