After wrapping up the D1 portion of their non-conference slate a perfect 12-0, Creighton opens Big East play with the one-two whammy of defending Big East Tournament champ Seton Hall and defending Big East regular season champ (and top-ranked defending NATIONAL CHAMPION) Villanova. In other words, we’ll know one helluva lot more about this team by Sunday. If they can manage to win both games, they’ll serve up a nice heaping platter of crow to the few remaining doubters, almost all of which reside within the Omaha media.
It’s so, so tempting to look ahead to that game with top-ranked Villanova — if the Jays win Wednesday, it’d be a matchup of two of the six remaining undefeated teams in all of Division 1, both of whom are ranked in the Top 10, and likely dislodge the 1978 MVC Title Game against Larry Bird’s Indiana State Sycamores as biggest home game in school history.