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OMAHA, Neb. -- Creighton's 11-game win streak came to an end over the weekend at Wichita State, but it wasn't enough to keep the Bluejay basketball program from a spot in the national polls this week.
Creighton dropped two spots to 12th in this week’s USA Today Top 25 Coaches poll, down from last week’s season-best 10th slot. In the Associated Press poll that Creighton uses, the Jays are 17th in this week’s poll, down five spots. Creighton’s best AP ranking this year was 11th on Nov. 26th.
Creighton has now been ranked in the top 17 by both groups in each of the first 12 polls of the season, and been ranked in the top-25 of 15 straight overall polls dating to late last season.
Creighton has now been ranked in the AP poll during 24 of Greg McDermott's 49 weeks at the helm, not to mention five other weeks where it's been 26th, 27th or 28th. The 24 weeks in the poll are most of any Creighton basketball coach in history.
Statistically, Creighton ranks among the nation’s top-13 in nine different categories through games of Jan. 20th. The Jays lead the nation with 9.6 three-pointers per game while also ranking first with 45.2 percent marksmanship from three-point range, while also ranking first in field goal percentage (.518). Creighton’s also fourth in assists per game (18.1), sixth in assist/turnover ratio (1.50), seventh in win percentage (.895), 10th in total points (1,500), 12th in scoring offense (78.9) and 13th in scoring margin (16.6). The only team to ever finish a season leading the nation in both 3-pointers per game and 3-point percentage was Princeton in 1987-88., while the only team to ever lead the nation in both field goal percentage and three-point percentage was Northern Arizona 1998-99.
Individually, Doug McDermott
is second in points per game (24.1), 28th in field goal percentage
(.565), 48th in free-throw percentage (.866) and and 180th in rebounds
per game (7.2). Grant Gibbs is fifth in assist/turnover ratio (3.77) and 24th in assists per game (5.90). In addition, Gregory Echenique ranks 91st in blocked shots per game (1.74), 102nd in double-doubles (4) and 157th in rebounds per game (7.4). Also in the top-100 are Ethan Wragge, who is 86th with 2.42 three-pointers per game, and Austin Chatman who ranks 76th with 4.7 assists per game and 96th with a 2.00 assist/turnover ratio.
Creighton (17-2, 6-1 MVC) continues Missouri Valley Conference play on Wednesday when it visits Drake (8-10, 2-5 MVC) at 7:05 pm.
Associated Press Poll
Released January 21, 2013
Rk School W-L Pts. LW
1. Duke (39) 16-1 1578 3
2. Michigan (11) 17-1 1539 5
3. Kansas (7) 16-1 1486 4
Syracuse (8) 17-1 1486 6
5. Louisville 16-2 1348 1
6. Arizona 16-1 1270 7
7. Indiana 16-2 1211 2
8. Florida 14-2 1181 10
9. Butler 16-2 1146 13
10. Gonzaga 17-2 994 8
11. Kansas State 15-2 927 16
12. Minnesota 15-3 905 9
13. Michigan State 16-3 831 18
14. Ohio State 13-4 701 11
15. New Mexico 16-2 659 19
16. Oregon 16-2 624 21
17. Creighton 17-2 611 12
18. North Carolina State 15-3 587 14
19. VCU 16-3 433 22
20. Wichita State 17-2 363 NR
21. Cincinnati 16-3 322 NR
22. Missouri 13-4 234 17
23. Mississippi 15-2 172 NR
24. Notre Dame 15-3 123 20
25. Miami (Fla.) 13-3 93 NR
Others Receiving Votes: Marquette 92, Wisconsin 55, UCLA 41, UNLV 32, Wyoming 28, San Diego State 26, Colorado State 7, Memphis 6, Georgetown 4, Iowa State 3, North Carolina 3, Louisiana Tech 2, Pittsburgh 1, Bucknell 1.
USA Today Top 25 Poll
Released January 21, 2013
Rk School W-L Pts. LW
1. Duke (20) 16-1 755 3
2. Kansas (8) 16-1 732 4
3. Michigan (1) 17-1 712 5
4. Syracuse (2) 17-1 699 6
5. Louisville 16-2 633 1
6. Arizona 16-1 609 7
7. Florida 14-2 588 9
8. Indiana 16-2 576 2
9. Butler 16-2 523 13
10. Gonzaga 17-2 454 8
11. Michigan State 16-3 439 17
12. Creighton 17-2 376 10
13. Kansas State 15-2 372 18
14. Minnesota 15-3 343 12
15. Ohio State 13-4 342 11
16. VCU 16-3 305 19
17. New Mexico 16-2 304 21
18. North Carolina State 15-3 234 15
19. Oregon 16-2 211 NR
20. Cincinnati 16-3 179 24
21. Wichita State 17-2 145 NR
22. Missouri 13-4 130 16
23. Notre Dame 15-3 84 20
24. Mississippi 15-2 69 NR
25. San Diego State 14-4 60 14
Others Receiving Votes: Miami (Fla.) 49, Wisconsin 42, UNLV 23, Marquette 20, Wyoming 17, Colorado State 16, Oklahoma State 7, Iowa State 5, Pittsburgh 5, UCLA 5, Bucknell 3, Illinois 3, Georgetown 2, Stephen F. Austin 2, Middle Tennessee 1, Saint Mary’s 1.
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