The 2018–19 Creighton Bluejays men's basketball team represented Creighton University in the 2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Bluejays were led by ninth-year head coach Greg McDermott and played their home games at the newly-named CHI Health Center Omaha, as members of the Big East Conference. They finished the season 20–15, 9–9 in Big East play to finish in a four-way tie for third place. As the No. 5 seed in the Big East tournament, they lost to Xavier in the quarterfinals. They received a bid to the National Invitation Tournament as the No. 2 seed in the TCU bracket where they defeated Loyola and Memphis before losing to TCU in the quarterfinals.

Previous season The Bluejays finished the 2017–18 season 21–12, 10–8 in Big East play to finish in a three-way tie for third place. They lost in the quarterfinals of the Big East tournament to Providence. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament as the No. 8 seed in the South Region. There the Bluejays lost in the first round to Kansas State.

Offseason

Departures Name Number Pos. Height Weight Year Hometown Notes 0 G 6'3" 215 Wichita Falls, TX Graduated 2 G 6'3" 210 Omaha, NE Declared for the 2018 NBA draft; selected 38th overall by the Philadelphia 76ers. 5 G 6'7" 195 Denver, CO Graduate transferred to Denver 11 G 6'2" 185 Overland Park, KS Graduated 32 F 6'10" 235 Berlin, WI Graduated 44 C 6'10" 250 Cliffside Park, NJ Graduated

In addition to the departing players, top assistant Darian DeVries left to take the head coaching vacancy at Drake. He had been with Creighton since 1998, first as an equipment manager and then from 2001 as an assistant coach.

Incoming transfers Name Number Pos. Height Weight Year Hometown Notes Connor Cashaw 2 G 6'5" 205 Graduate Student Lincolnshire, IL Transferred from Rice. Will be eligible to play immediately since Cashaw graduated from Rice. Denzel Mahoney 34 G 6'4" 213 Junior Oviedo, FL Transferred from Southeast Missouri State. Under NCAA transfer rules, Mahoney will have to sit out for the 2018–19 season. Will have two years of remaining eligibility.

2018 recruiting class

2019 recruiting class

Roster

Schedule and results

!colspan=9 style=| Exhibition

!colspan=9 style=| Non-conference regular season

!colspan=9 style=|Big East regular season

!colspan=9 style="|Big East Tournament

!colspan=9 style="|NIT

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