St. John's had a three-point lead and a chance to hold for the final shot before halftime with under 10 seconds and Phil Greene raced up court with no clue what he was going to do and got stripped. Harrison gets injured in the process and it set the tone for the 2nd half.
I have to admit when I am wrong so I apologize for thinking our players would run out of steam by February. They are playing tired NOW.
Of course everyone saw this disaster coming. Our 6th man, Rysheed Jordan, has barely practiced the past two weeks and not only was he not game ready, he was lost in space on offense. Another great move by the wizard to give him 26 minutes. The walk on Stewart scored 5 points in 6 minutes and likely would have provided better outside scoring opportunities. In another brilliant move Lavin decided to go with a 5 guard offense against the bigger wildcats. The net results were easy layups and a 20 rebounding edge. No JDR, no Alibegovic, no size whatsoever.
The last 10 minutes were as good an example of coaching malpractice as we have seen by our lame duck coach. Poor substitutions, rushing plays instead of set plays, poor 3 point defense and allowing his starters to exhaust themselves leading to a Nova pounding. While getting zero production from Rysheed was a major cause of the second half blowout, not using JDR against Ochefu led to so many easy rebounds that led to baskets that I wonder WTF the assistant coaches say to Lavin to snap him out of his twilight zone. Doesn't matter anyway. Good bye ranking, hello search committee.