...Can we make the Tournament?

[ADORAZ]

Boo - huh? That's not what my post said. I definitely would not prefer the NIT to the NCAA. I just said NIT would still be a solid year in my book. 

 

[SJUFAN2]

SJU will make the tournament

And advance to the Final Four where fans aren't allowed.

But such is the luck of St. John's 

lol, I was thinking the same!  Imagine having an incredible run in a year where none of us can see a live game 

 

Boo my man, please take a minute to figure out how to use the new quote function.  Your posts are unreadable.

 

[ras]

SJU will make the tournament

And advance to the Final Four where fans aren't allowed.

But such is the luck of St. John's 

lol, I was thinking the same!  Imagine having an incredible run in a year where none of us can see a live game 

I would have no problem watching an incredible run on tv.
 

 

[bamafan]

Yep, no doubt about it that  St. John's is a lock for the NCAA Tournament if it continues to win games in the regular season and one or more games in the Big East tournament.
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Last nights win over Villanova is of little meaning if St.John's loses its next 2 games at Providence and  Butler.

Discussion about the NCAA tournament at this point in the season is merely a distraction.  The St. John's team must remain focused on defeating Providence College at Providence College on Saturday at 3 pm.  I can't wait.


Planning on tuning into the game at halftime?  Game is at 2pm Otis my man! /media/kunena/emoticons/smile.png




 

 

[MarkRedman]

SJU will make the tournament

And advance to the Final Four where fans aren't allowed.

But such is the luck of St. John's 


That would be absolutely fine with me
I'd sign up for that right now!!
 

 

[ADORAZ]

http://www.bracketmatrix.com/

We are on a few brackets! 

Yes, obviously it's early and we need to finish strong, but it's great that our resume is getting some respect at .500 BE. That'll be important on Selection Sunday if we finish on the bubble. We already have 2/3 of our resume completed at this point. 

 

[beast of the east]

http://www.bracketmatrix.com/

We are on a few brackets! 

Yes, obviously it's early and we need to finish strong, but it's great that our resume is getting some respect at .500 BE. That'll be important on Selection Sunday if we finish on the bubble. We already have 2/3 of our resume completed at this point. 

Really the bottom line is if we finish 11-9 or better in conference, on selection Sunday the question will be where we are going, not if we are going.   That hasn't occurred since Lavin's first season.   Any thing below that in conference short of going to the BET finals is crossing your fingers and hoping.

 

[SJUFAN2]

I think we need to be at least .500 in conference to get into the dance.  
6-6 in conf now...  8 games left with:
@Providence
Providence
@Butler
Xavier
Depaul
@Nova
Hall
Uconn

4 wins from that group likely gets us in.  5 definitely does.  

 

 

[beast of the east]

I think we need to be at least .500 in conference to get into the dance.  
6-6 in conf now...  8 games left with:
@Providence
Providence
@Butler
Xavier
Depaul
@Nova
Hall
Uconn

4 wins from that group likely gets us in.  5 definitely does.  


 

Even at this moment, it would be hard to be confident above 2 wins on a game by game basis - a split with Providence, and a win vs. dePaul.   Nova, Xavier, UCONN and SHU will be pretty tall challenges.   Butler away will not be easy either.

The next 3 games are telling for certain.   1-2 is likely.   If we do any better than that we have reason to be encouraged about the post season..   

 

[Jack Williams]

I think we need to win 5 more games to dance. Whether that be 4 regular season games + 1 BET win.... or 5 regular season wins straight up. I think 5 more gets it done. 

it sounds weird to say a 17 win SJU team could dance, but it's a weird year where some teams aren't playing a lot of games. 17 wins is actually very good in terms of this Covid season. Get there and I think we are good

 

[otis]

The next step is to defeat a very good Providence College in Providence.

 

[Anthony Mattia]

Next 4 out in Lunardi's poll today

 

[TonyinFairfield]

Just win, baby! 

 

[espken]

Hopefully we don't fall prey to the "Sports Illustrated jinx", in terms of all the positive press.  All justified  of course.

 

[beast of the east]

The next step is to defeat a very good Providence College in Providence.

Like everything else that's happened recently, it's not absoutely necessary to beath them up there since we will play them again at home, but the excitement we have right now will be legitimized if we can win tomorrow.   We forget that Mullin's last team was 8-5 before they crashed horribly.   The next three games are important to us, and losing 2 of 3 would put a ding in NCAA chances (not crush them).   Tomorrow is a big game to put the league on notice that this is no fluke.

 

[NCJohnnie]

We have 2 of our last 3 road games coming up. I think we need to win one of the two to set ourselves up for a strong finish with 4 of last 5 at home (assuming no  UCONN home game). I don't care that much which one, although we are capable of winning both. With PC's point guard still out (assumption on my part), they have to worry about our pressure just like we have to worry about thier big guy down low.

 

[MakingPlays]

We have 2 of our last 3 road games coming up. I think we need to win one of the two to set ourselves up for a strong finish with 4 of last 5 at home (assuming no  UCONN home game). I don't care that much which one, although we are capable of winning both. With PC's point guard still out (assumption on my part), they have to worry about our pressure just like we have to worry about thier big guy down low.

I'm hoping somehow they get that UConn game rescheduled, it would be a raw deal if they don't.  That's a very winnable game that will be a Q1 or Q2 win against a team that's in the field, that win would really help the resume, those Q1/Q2 wins are hard to comeby.

It sucks that the DePaul game got rescheduled instead, I was hoping this would be the game that got cancelled, playing DePaul is high risk with 0 reward, playing them at home is a Q4 game and would be considered a bad loss, and it wouldn't be so bad playing them if they didn't have talent and a guy like Charlie Moore who can get hot and single handily steal a game.

 

[MakingPlays]

https://twitter.com/NYPost_Brazille/status/1357744570692468739

 

[camz]

We have 2 of our last 3 road games coming up. I think we need to win one of the two to set ourselves up for a strong finish with 4 of last 5 at home (assuming no  UCONN home game). I don't care that much which one, although we are capable of winning both. With PC's point guard still out (assumption on my part), they have to worry about our pressure just like we have to worry about thier big guy down low.

Next 3 games: @ PC, @ Butler, vs. DePaul.

I'm feeling that if we can win tomorrow, we could easily be looking at 9-6 in the B.E. I know I shouldn't get ahead of myself but Butler and DePaul really isn't good. 
To go from 1-5 to 9-6 would be unreal.

Here's to hoping.

 

[Mean Gene]

We have 2 of our last 3 road games coming up. I think we need to win one of the two to set ourselves up for a strong finish with 4 of last 5 at home (assuming no  UCONN home game). I don't care that much which one, although we are capable of winning both. With PC's point guard still out (assumption on my part), they have to worry about our pressure just like we have to worry about thier big guy down low.

Next 3 games: @ PC, @ Butler, vs. DePaul.

I'm feeling that if we can win tomorrow, we could easily be looking at 9-6 in the B.E. I know I shouldn't get ahead of myself but Butler and DePaul really isn't good. 
To go from 1-5 to 9-6 would be unreal.

Here's to hoping.



I actually think for us to secure a tournament berth we need to win these next three games. No excuses. All three are very winnable games .