Big Easts elite teams are still a notch above improving St. John’s
For a fair chunk of Saturday afternoon, you didnt even need to see the basketball game taking place on the floor of Madison Square Garden.
For a fair chunk of Saturday afternoon, you didnt even need to see the basketball game taking place on the floor of Madison Square Garden.
After all that, St. Johns and Connecticut will play at the Garden next year, Rick Pitino said Friday.
St. Johns has been close, playing No. 1 Connecticut, No. 9 Marquette and No. 13 Creighton tough in all three meetings. Those narrow defeats were decided by a grand total of six points.
DePaul fired head coach Tony Stubblefield on Monday. The Blue Demons were 28-54 overall and 9-38 in Big East play intwo-plus seasonsunder Stubblefield.
Villanova hosted No. 1 UConn on Saturday in a Big East matchup at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pa.
All along, St. John's and its believers had circled this stretch, understood we would learn so much about them as they stacked these eight games.
Seventeen years ago, Rick Pitino gave a young coach his first shot at the college level on the suggestion of one of his assistants.
Without the Rick Pitinto, who wasnt on the sideline due to a bout of COVID-19, St. John's didnt show up Tuesday night in an 80-65 beatdown to Seton Hall at Prudential Center.
A 17-5 run followed, paving the way to a hard-fought 75-73 victory and 4-1 start in league play, St. Johns best since the 2000-01 season.