2025-2026 Season

L J S A said:
You would have laughed at me 10 years ago but thankfully not any time recently. :ROFLMAO:
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I thought you were referring to me in that post. I was genuinely interested if I wrote that because it doesn't match up with how I've consistently felt about the group of perimeter players. I accidentally efiled something with the courts this week with a date of 2024, so anything is possible😆

My multitasking skills are brutal.
 
love seeing our guys in the preseason top 10, but makes it so bitter-sweet to see a certain team ahead of them
 
CBS Sports Issac Trotter posted this article Ranking college basketball's best defenders by position: Top shot-blockers, wing-stoppers and shutdown closers.
He mentions two of our players as being the best in the country:

Wing stoppers​

1. Dillon Mitchell, St. John's: Mitchell's mere presence is a good thing for any defense. The 6-8, 210-pound senior is one of the best athletes in college basketball, and he's a tremendous defensive rebounder for a wing. Cincinnati's defense was 13 points per 100 possessions better when he was on the floor last year because of his ability to fly around, plug gaps and douse fires. Now he heads to St. John's to play for Rick Pitino, one of the best defensive coaches of all time. Mitchell should be firmly in the race for Big East Defensive Player of the Year.


Sturdy interior defenders​

1. Zuby Ejiofor, St. John's: Ejiofor takes zero plays off defensively. That motor is always revving, and he turned into one of the best switch-everything big men in college basketball. Rick Pitino asked him to guard point guards, scorers, big wings, tough forwards, bruising centers and everyone in between. It was a full team effort, but St. John's would not have been the No. 2 defense in the country without Ejiofor.

I still think Ejiofor was robbed in last year's Big East Defensive Player of the Year race. (This was his comment)
 
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