After their final practice for the foreign trip on Monday, the Creighton men’s basketball team took off on Tuesday for the nine hour flight to Italy. Throughout this foreign trip WBR, will capture the special moments on social media along with other interesting news of the day. With games not scheduled until Friday afternoon, there will be plenty of sightseeing and other adventures the team encountered. In fact, even for the travel day there was a whole lot of excitement.
Of course first off, the team had to get to the airport.
Wait…we’re DRIVING to Italy??? #ForzaJays pic.twitter.com/ARAcR8ETMi
— Rob Anderson (@_robanderson) August 4, 2015
Before Creighton left, Head Coach Greg McDermott hopped on with Nick Bahe on 1620 the Zone and talked about their trip. Then with the plane ready to go:
Boarding our plane to Italy! #LetItFly #ForzaJays #Creighton pic.twitter.com/DZ5mfLw3wY — Creighton Basketball (@BluejayMBB) August 4, 2015
The Bluejays ran into their first injury of the trip:
Rough start to the trip for Martin Krampelj.. Cut his head on a doorway trying to board the plane to Milan #forzajays pic.twitter.com/P08kBJwGD0
— Creighton Basketball (@BluejayMBB) August 4, 2015
I’m sure Carrot Top had no idea what was coming.
So excited .. #LeavingLasVegas on way to #Italy !✈️ https://t.co/AjS23OvtUy — Carrot Top (@RealCarrotTop) August 4, 2015
But he joined the Bluejays on their trip on the same plane and Freshman Justin Patton didn’t pass up the opportunity to get a quick photo with the prop comic:
Flying behind first class with @RealCarrotTop #ForzaJays pic.twitter.com/vfitU1HKN3
— Justin Patton (@JustinPatton17) August 4, 2015
And the rest of the Bluejays were ready to go:
9hr flight to Italy #ForzaJays #Creighton #Rolljays pic.twitter.com/Sxnvh5NTWT — M.Albert (@CoopDreams) August 4, 2015
Other News
- It appears that there will be no New Year’s Eve extravaganza this year to kick off the Big East season. There have been several reports that due to the NCAA Football Playoff games being on New Year’s Eve, the Big East is looking to kick off conference play the day before on December 30th.
- Creighton SID Rob Anderson tweeted today that all home Creighton soccer, volleyball, basketball, baseball and softball video webcasts in 2015-16 will be FREE. No more paying for webcasts for events at home. We will wait to hear what is planned for the road events. This will likely be based on how the opponents handle their events.
- Our friends at Anonymous Eagle are really into volleyball–so much that they put out their preseason predictions. This year they have named the Bluejay’s Jess Bird as the preseason Big East POY and Creighton is expected to be at the top despite all of the players head coach Kirsten Bernthal Booth has to replace this upcoming season. It says a lot for the program that they are to the point that they can reload.
- On Monday the Men’s Soccer preseason top 25 came out and Creighton is sitting at #6 in the nation. This could be another big year on the pitch.
- The first home event of the Creighton sports year is the Blue-White scrimmage for the women’s soccer team and the debut of new head coach Ross Paule. Stop over on Saturday morning for the 11 AM scrimmage.
We’re BACK!! @CreightonWSoc reported for the 2015 season today! pic.twitter.com/0Mm24BFejC
— Creighton WSoccer (@CreightonWSoc) August 4, 2015