I'd also like to comment regarding the public beating we took all season. regarding our pre-Big East schedule It's about time that someone cleared this up because it was a travesty! For me, that entire issue was vastly exaggerated by a couple of media sports casters. One guy said it, and then other people repeated it because it "was what they heard". I'm not saying there wasn't some easy games on our schedule. Some of them we play from years of tradition. But most every team in America has their share of cream-puffs in the early part of their season. Is this not true? Everyone knows that a national ranking is tough if you go out and play a slew of games against top ten clubs...particularly on the road. To clarify this issue I submit the following aspects of our early line-up. These teams were not guaranteed wins by any means and hardly clarify as cream puffs.
Rutgers- A Big Ten school- They beat Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio St., Indiana, and Nebraska. WE BEAT THEM BY 20!
Georgia Tech- An ACC school- They beat North Carolina St., Boston College, Pitt, Notre Dame, & Syracuse by 14.
Bowling Green - They beat Buffalo...the NCAA 3 Seed!
Princeton- Beat Metro champs (NCAA) Iona, U Penn (twice) and ARIZONA ST!
VCU - An NCAA team still playing- They beat St Louis, Iona, St. Bonaventure by 30, and Wichita St.
Duke- No description necessary...and we played them at Cameron Indoor.
Was this the best pre-conference schedule of any team in the country?...NO!. But it hardly qualifies as an example of a school who completely padded their pre-conference games. It's just another example of the apparent screwing being targeted at St. John's. Did we fail to make contributions to the NCAA Golden Parachute Fund....or the Referees Bahama Retirement Plan? I don't know. It felt like it. I didn't hear any of these jackass commentators point out that
St. John's had a conference game completely STOLEN from them. And that as a result, instead of finishing third in the conference, we were relegated to the extra game in the BIG East Tournament.....and also a much lower seed at the NCAA tournament. No one said that Seton Hall stole our spot. So I urge you....let's not self-flaggulate over some imaginary poor early schedule. It just feeds into propaganda that ignores the screwing we already tolerated...and along with it, the inferences that we didn't earn our spot in the "Dance".
the inferences that we didn't earn our spot in the Big Dance.
Rutgers- A Big Ten school- They beat Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio St., Indiana, and Nebraska. WE BEAT THEM BY 20!
Georgia Tech- An ACC school- They beat North Carolina St., Boston College, Pitt, Notre Dame, & Syracuse by 14.
Bowling Green - They beat Buffalo...the NCAA 3 Seed!
Princeton- Beat Metro champs (NCAA) Iona, U Penn (twice) and ARIZONA ST!
VCU - An NCAA team still playing- They beat St Louis, Iona, St. Bonaventure by 30, and Wichita St.
Duke- No description necessary...and we played them at Cameron Indoor.
Was this the best pre-conference schedule of any team in the country?...NO!. But it hardly qualifies as an example of a school who completely padded their pre-conference games. It's just another example of the apparent screwing being targeted at St. John's. Did we fail to make contributions to the NCAA Golden Parachute Fund....or the Referees Bahama Retirement Plan? I don't know. It felt like it. I didn't hear any of these jackass commentators point out that
St. John's had a conference game completely STOLEN from them. And that as a result, instead of finishing third in the conference, we were relegated to the extra game in the BIG East Tournament.....and also a much lower seed at the NCAA tournament. No one said that Seton Hall stole our spot. So I urge you....let's not self-flaggulate over some imaginary poor early schedule. It just feeds into propaganda that ignores the screwing we already tolerated...and along with it, the inferences that we didn't earn our spot in the "Dance".
the inferences that we didn't earn our spot in the Big Dance.
