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Last year the Creighton men’s basketball team ended the regular season 4-14 in Big East play and tied for ninth in the conference standings.
This season the Bluejays improved their conference win total by five games (9-9), placed sixth and will play in the postseason for the 18th time in the past 19 years.
Creighton accepted an invitation to the NIT and will host Alabama (18-14) in a first round NIT matchup on Tuesday night at 8 p.m.
“It’s a huge step from where we were last year,” junior guard Maurice Watson Jr.