Author: @gtmoblue

Retired military, military contractor. Independent Journalist, blogger Indigdoc@gmail.com

Jays Crashing into the Polls!

On By @gtmoblueIn college basketball 365
Cindy’s Here!

Well, well, well. Looky here.
Looks as though Cinderella has been invited to the ball. This year’s media darling, the Creighton Bluejays (Azulejos) have joined a few of the national rankings.
College Sports Madness Top 25 – # 25 (20 Nov 11)
CBS Sports Top 25 (and one) – #23 (21 Nov 11)
Espn/Coaches Poll – # 25 (21 Nov 11)
Some of the Creighton fans will cry – as they always want to fly “under the radar” and sneak up on teams. Well, not this year.
Naysayers will cry – Who? Crayton? Crieton? They don’t “deserve” to be ranked!
None-the-less here we are. The Mighty, Mighty Creighton Bluejays have cracked the Polls.
It’s about time!
Overrated? Undeserving? Not ready for prime time? We shall see.
IMO the Azulejos are “In it to win it.”
IMO they will carry a ranking for the remainder of this season…and move up, no less.
As for deserving of a ranking…Let’s talk Arizona, or any of the teams who dropped out the last 2 weeks, or UCLA even. The polls are a beauty contest. No team should have any ranking prior to the 3rd or 4th week of the season. The pundits always start off with the usual suspects, until upsets (of which there are many this season- already) force them to drop some of their BCS beauties.
Heck, if new addition(s) to the various polls don’t last, then oh well. It can’t be said that they were not given their shot.
Way to go Coaches Poll, good call early…no let’s see what transpires. This ought to be GOOD!
Go Jays! Go Big Blue!
– love ya,
gtmo

November: Early Reasons for Thanksgiving

On By @gtmoblueIn college basketball 365
Jays Making Moves for Turkeyday

21 Nov 2011 – Omaha, NB

November is historically a good month in Creighton Sports. Generally the Soccer Jays are in the NCAA Tourney and the Basketball Jays are ‘normally’ making an early season run. This November the cake has icing on it

Creighton is the overall #2 Seed and a regional host school in the 2011 NCAA Soccer Tournament. The Bluejays are getting a lot of ink as attested by the story below. As a high seed the Jays received a 1st round bye. The futbol Jays blanked Northern Illinois in the 2nd Round of NCAA Soccer play and face #15 Seed, UC Santa Barbara in next weekend’s 3rd Round, at Morrison Stadium.

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/7235335/ncaa-men-soccer-ncaa-tournament-bracket-announcement

http://espn.go.com/ncaa/tournament/bracket/_/id/5/2011-ncaa-men-soccer

On the other side of the Creighton Regional… Top Ranked (#1) in the polls, but only 10th Seeded – New Mexico takes on #7 Seed South Florida. The Lobos were definitely slighted by the tourney committee and should have a very large “chip” on their collective shoulder. I would not be surprised to see New Mexico as a quarterfinals participant, on 03 Dec 11.

Meanwhile, the Soccer Jays basketball brethren have begun the season very well, starting off with a 4-0 record and 2 consecutive road victories. The latest win being a blowout over the Iowa Hawkeyes, an 82-59 final, at the Dale Howard Classic, in Des Moines, IA yesterday.

http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=313242294

http://www.gocreighton.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=1000&ATCLID=205336403

The hoops Jays have received a lot of preseason hype and love by the media pundits, resulting in votes in both major polls, and rankings in a few others. Now the good folks at College Sports Madness have broken the ice and included Creighton in their Top 25, at #25 / NCAA Tourney 7 Seed, this week. Expect one or both of the major polls (AP or Coaches) to follow suit later today.

http://www.collegesportsmadness.com/mens-basketball/top-25-rankings

Creighton is averaging 86 ppg while holding opponents to 61 ppg. This team is showing a propensity to continue to press in scoring – not letting up on opponents, AND a propensity to playing sticky defense! Two factors which were sorely missing last season.

November is normally a good month in Creighton Sports. November 2011 has the makings of an exceptionally good month for the this year’s Creighton Bluejays. More to follow.