@Providence, Tue., Feb. 13, 7p, CBSSN

It's funny how predictions work. I had us losing yesterday, and winning three in a row starting Tuesday. Yet, I feel a lot less confident about that now then when I posted that last week.
 
dk423 said:
It's funny how predictions work. I had us losing yesterday, and winning three in a row starting Tuesday. Yet, I feel a lot less confident about that now then when I posted that last week.
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St. John’s has this sick twisted ability to take games where you know you’re probably going to lose, and somehow making it the most excruciating experience ever. they leave you feeling worse than you did pregame even though you already knew the loss was coming. It’s uncanny
 
njfan said:
Of course Rick set the bar high. What coach wouldnt. He brought life back into a doormat program. We are playing competitive basketball. But as he said he recruited 5th year offensive minded players who do not know how to play defense. The thing with 5th year players is sometimes you cant teach an old dog new tricks. I still find this season enjoyable fun to watch outside of the Seton Hall game. Ill take that over any game i might of watched in the past anderson era games. Coach that coaches, players that care and play. Remember our starting lineup consists of Iona player, Harvard player. Granted I love Jenkins. Ledlum developed into a nice, not great but nice player. Zuby is going to be a power house next year. Brady we see getting more confident in his shots. Everyone expected us tourny and the moon this year. Just look at Cooley at Georgetown, I think Rick did a better job year 1.
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I'm enjoying this team a lot more than Anderson's last 3 teams(I really enjoyed his 1st team), but let's not set the bar at Anderson's last 3 teams.

We've seen glimpses of what this team
is capable of, and I think we all thought we'd turned the corner when we started Big East play at 4-1, which is why many of us found this season so frustrating and disappointing .

Having said all of that, still very excited to see what the future holds.
 
monte said:
Agree with all Paultz, but just remember that he created much of the crazy expectations with his preseason talk. Which has probably led to much of his frustration right now.

I know he wanted to get the fanbase amped up, and get the media buzz cranking, but in hindsight he should have toned it down just a little bit.
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He (Pitino) pulled a Ralph Houk. (See Houk’s assessment of the Yankees preseason 1966).
 
Big East projected to have 5 or 6 tournament teams.

Three ranked teams (UCONN, Marquette, Creighton) will be in.
Six teams (SH, Butler, Xavier, Providence, SJU, Nova) for 1 or 2 spots.

Big East Tournament likely to determine at least 1 or possibly 2 spots.
 
SJUWillRockNYC said:
We been saying that all year, if we get one win here and one win there, but it just doesn't happen.
GL with this game.

I'll give them this game , but confidence isn't good.
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actually I haven't. Thought hopefully 4-4 January. Yeah every game felt like a huge game because of how bad Mich SH and BC were but this was always the pivotal game but you gotta win SH too and the 3 bad ones and hopefully a signature win like Creighton
 
Silly Donovan said:
From 4-1 to …..6-7…..that’s painful. Let’s hope the bleeding stops on Tuesday.
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If you take away the exhition DePaul game (which everyone blowouts), they're 5-7.

Lose Tuesday and that's 5-8, but according to some, we'll still have a chance to make the NCAA Tournament.

I'm expecting losses in every road game now except DePaul, until I see otherwise.

Please surprise me Tuesday night.
 
SJUWillRockNYC said:
If you take away the exhition DePaul game (which everyone blowouts), they're 5-7.

Lose Tuesday and that's 5-8, but according to some, we'll still have a chance to make the NCAA Tournament.

I'm expecting losses in every road game now except DePaul, until I see otherwise.

Please surprise me Tuesday night.
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By this logic, butler is 4-6 in big east play.

Seton hall is 5-5.

Providence is 4-7

Nova is 4-7

X is 5-6

So who outside the top 3 deserves to make the tournament in the Big East? Or is it just St. John’s that needs to apologize for beating DePaul and Georgetown?
 
Jack Williams said:
By this logic, butler is 4-6 in big east play.

Seton hall is 5-5.

Providence is 4-7

Nova is 4-7

X is 5-6

So who outside the top 3 deserves to make the tournament in the Big East? Or is it just St. John’s that needs to apologize for beating DePaul and Georgetown?
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I never included Georgetown, atleast they'll play close games, and we gotta be up for them or we'll lose.

I never said we gotta apologize for beating DePaul, St. John's did what they needed too just like everyone else.
I still can't get all excited that we blew them by 28pnts, like no other B.E. team should also.

They're just an opponent to get practice in against for SJU and everyone else, nothing more and nothing less.
 
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