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Let's face it CA is a dinosaur - she looks better after the facelift - but she's still a dinosaur. With Lavin catapulting us into the forefront of college basketball how long before we get a 21st century arena?
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It will likely never happen unless St Johns buys some land near the school.

Funny that I went to an alumni gathering right before Fran Fraschilla coached his first game and they had drawings of a big circular arena to be built in the parking lot on Utopia and Union Turnpike.
 
Already a "change" to the schedule, according to St. John's twitter page (I think there was just a missprint somewhere along the line):

 We heard from @espn late last night, we're flip-flopping our Queens @2KSportsClassic opponents. W&M in the opened 11/7, Lehigh 11/9 #stjbb

Big difference, I know.

Also, they are saying that there may be some minor tweaks to the exhibition games, but any changes should come today.
 
 I think the week after that Syracuse game in '79 we played Louisville at Alumni Hall and lost another one possesion game. That Louisville team had Darrell Griffith, Jerry Eaves and the the two big kids, the brothers from Mount Vernon, NY.
 
The Louisville game was mid Feb. 1980 and the Syracuse game was at the end of Feb. Both were brutal losses. The ref that called the block on Reggie Carter rather than charge on Louis Orr was from upstate New York.

I confronted Orr about that play 20+ years after and he smiled, but would not admit to the charge.  
 
Let's face it CA is a dinosaur - she looks better after the facelift - but she's still a dinosaur. With Lavin catapulting us into the forefront of college basketball how long before we get a 21st century arena?
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On campus?
Never
There is no space and the residents neighboring the university would never let it fly.
 
 It's a dollars and cents issue. If we're drawing over 10K for our Garden games, it simply doesn't make sense to play many games at CA. Our attendance jumps a huge amount by just moving 2 Big East games to CA. We're rolling now and it only makes sense to capitalize. It improves our relationship with the Garden and brings money into SJU. This move alone assures that SJU's attendance numbers overall take a bit of a jump at the end of the season.
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ESPKEN, how many BE games did we play at Alumini Hall in '85?
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We played 6 BE games at Alumni Hall that year, only Georgetown and Syracuse at MSG.
We didn't start playing other conference teams at the garden until the 89-90 season.
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I still get agita' thinking of '78 or '79 game at Alumni Hall against Syracuse, when the Cuse's Louis Orr blatantly ran right through a perfectly positioned Reggie Carter to score the game-winning basket as the game clock wound down, and the refs didn't call the obvious charge ... and it was on our own court!
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Rencher, who was about an 85% FT shooter missed the front end of a one-and-one with 5 seconds to go. Had he made both, we would have virtually clinched the win with a 3 point lead and no three point shot. Before Rencher stepped to the line, Syracuse called time out. In front of a national audience, SJU fans chanted "We're number 1", anticipating a win that could vault us 4-5 places to the top since everyone in front of us had lost that week. Rencher clanked the front end, Syracuse raced downcourt (Marty Head with the ball??), and Orr soared for a layup. There was a pause before the call that seemed forever, and then the ref signalled a block. My recollection was that despite hoping against hope, Carter submarined Orr.

The game was played on February 16, 1980. The final score was 72-71, Syracuse. Syrancuse was ranked #2 in the country at the time. Orr had 29 points and 17 rebounds.
 
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