Creighton has its next men’s basketball coach — though it will be some time before he officially gets the job.
High Point’s Alan Huss has agreed to a contract that will make him the coach-in-waiting under Greg McDermott, sources told CBS Sports. The deal is expected to be announced no later than Friday. Huss, McDermott, Creighton athletic director Marcus Blossom and Creighton president Daniel Hendrickson were in communication on the succession plan for weeks. On Thursday morning, Huss made up his mind and agreed to a deal.
The decision was delayed because Huss was a candidate at multiple high-major openings in the past two weeks, in addition to having some hesitation over leaving High Point. Huss’ choice to leave a high-end mid-major was aided by some assurances from McDermott that he wouldn’t be coaching into the end of the 2020s at Creighton. No concrete decision has been made on when the 60-year-old McDermott will coach his final games with the Bluejays, but sources said the expectation is likely two more years at most. Huss likely would not have agreed to the deal to leave High Point if there was an indefinite long-term timeline moving forward with McDermott.
Huss, who has deep ties to the Midwest, was previously an assistant under McDermott at Creighton from 2017-23 and helped build out the program to one of the best in the Big East during that span. By joining Creighton, the school is opting for an unusual hiring arrangement. There have been hand-picked successors in college basketball over the years, but this is a rare situation in which a former assistant has opted to leave a head job at another school to come back and theoretically wait multiple seasons before taking over.
It’s happening because Huss has a high-end reputation for how he runs a program, having established himself as a head coach immediately the past two years.
The Panthers made the 2025 NCAA Tournament and fell in the first round as a No. 13 seed to fourth-seeded Purdue. Huss’ team went 29-6, including a 17-2 mark against Big South teams this past season. Huss is 56-15 overall as a head coach. Creighton is coming off a second-round loss as a No. 9 seed to No. 1 seed Auburn. The Bluejays are 350-171 under McDermott, who has 630 career wins and taken Creighton to 10 NCAA tourneys, including the last five in a row.
With his departure from High Point, Huss’ top assistant, Flynn Clayman, is a strong candidate to take over the job. That said, HPU is regarded as a top 10-15 mid-major gig. From a facilities and support standpoint, it’s clearly No. 1 in the Big South. It will attract attention and desire from many sitting high-major assistants.
As for other coach-in-waiting situations: Houston has a deal signed to have Kellen Sampson take over for Kelvin whenever the latter opts to retire, which is not expected in the next year or two. Bruce Pearl is looking to do the same at Auburn for his son, Steven. In football, Utah has defensive coordinator Morgan Scalley as coach-in-waiting. But to have someone in line the way Creighton has arranged things with Huss is a creative way to ensure consistency for whenever McDermott steps away.
In total, we’ve had 14 flips in the five power conferences in this cycle and. That’s more than I expected, and in fact matches the number from 2024. The total number of coaching changes in 2025’s cycle is now at 54, with seven vacancies to fill at the mid-major level.
Here are the new faces in new places:
Major-conference changes
Non-Power Five changes
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