Creighton’s baseball team will bus from Omaha to Wichita for Tuesday’s game and then bus 783 miles to Cincinnati to play Xavier.
Coach Ed Servais can’t wait. The trip will serve as a reminder of his school’s time in the Missouri Valley Conference, when the Bluejays bussed and players bonded over card games, school work and pranks. Now in the Big East, the Bluejays fly to most conference weekends. Servais mandates at least one bus trip each season. Airplane travel makes sense for trips to the East Coast, but players scatter in small groups in the airport. On the bus, they’re together and Servais likes that.