@#19 Connecticut, Fri., Feb. 7, 8p, FOX

This is the best defense I have seen from my many moons of following SJU Bball. Great to watch. Rick deserves a lot of credit to get the young men put in the effort on defense in today's basketball. There was one sequence where Conn had the ball and got a rebound right before the 30 second clock expired and then turned it over as a result of not getting a shot off in the 20 seconds that followed. Our guys played 50 seconds of defense and did not let down.
 
I said it a million times RJ was/is the key to this season. This team was going to be good, a Tourney team without question.

To be elite they needed him to be healthy and playing like an All-BE type of player. And he is.

Oh and this team will guard you as soon you get out of the locker room.
 
What an incredible job Pitino has done. He has revitalized this program in less than two years. We were in the wilderness. And now we are winning and we’re drawing 16k plus at the Garden. I have no words to describe how special he is as a coach.
I think he’s enjoying it as well.
 
Ok so immediately after games, the days leading up to games and on Monday’s when polls come out, this has been the most enjoyable and successful team since the Mullin/Berry teams.
During the games… I don’t know what to say, I appreciate how hard we play and the defense, but we make crazy mistakes, can’t shoot, miss free throws and one of our best players might have ugliest shot in history. It is really hard to reconcile how successful we have been with how we play. Want to sit back and enjoy since I never thought we would be this successful ever again, but then the game starts and….
 
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