Huss Era Opens Monday as Creighton Men's Basketball Hosts Kansas City

Creighton returns three starters and six lettermen from last season's team that finished 16-18 and ended the year in Las Vegas as semifinalists at the College Basketball Crown. 
Josh Dix (13.2 ppg.) and Nik Graves (10.9) both graduated, leaving Austin Swartz (10.9 ppg.) and Jasen Green (10.5 ppg., 6.3 rpg.) as the leading returning scorers. Also back is Jackson McAndrew (6.8 ppg.), who missed all but four games a year ago due to injury after landing on the BIG EAST's All-Freshman Team in 2024-25.
CU's influx of newcomers includes transfers BJ Davis (San Diego State), Kayden "Bugg" Edwards (TCU), Wes Enis (South Florida), Oswin Erhunmwunse (Providence) and Wesly Rosa (Garden City CC).
Creighton was picked to finish seventh in the BIG EAST in a preseason poll of league coaches, with McAndrew and Erhunmwunse both earning Preseason Third Team All-BIG EAST accolades.
The Bluejays won both of their public exhibition games by three points each, winning at No. 18 Iowa State (83-80) before defeating Minnesota (89-86, 2OT). In those 90 minutes, CU trailed for just 3:06.

Scouting Kansas City
Kansas City went 4-27 last season, losing their last 15 games of the season after a Jan. 3 victory at Omaha. Three of Kansas City's four wins came against non-Division I foes in the final campaign under Marvin Menzies.
This year's Kansas City team features an entirely new roster and was picked to finish eighth of eight teams in the Summit League.
Seniors Jaylen Smith (9.1 ppg., at East Tennessee) and Sebastian Hartmann (7.0 ppg., 5.0 rpg. at Chattanooga) are expected to emerge as leaders on a team with nine freshmen and five transfers. Smith was named the Southern Conference Sixth Man of the Year last season and a Preseason All-Summit League Second Team pick. Hartmann played two years for Eastern Washington before spending last season at Chattanooga. Others to keep an eye on are Assane Diop (5.7 ppg., 5.2 rpg. at San Diego) and freshman Atuka Bakhtadze. 
Smith led the Roos with 20 points and four assists in a 64-54 exhibition win over Montana State on Saturday. Diop owned a game-high 11 rebounds against the Bobcats.