What loss caused you the most agita ?

SJU85 said:
This year’s Baylor loss. While there were much worse losses, the way I felt afterwards made me not watch the next two games in the Bahamas. I stayed away from this site for about three to four days.

I was pissed at the team and the way the loss made me feel.
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Get that one, but knocking on the door to Final 4 w great team & not having healthy Ty put me on the couch at wife’s bidding for a long time lol
 
bamafan said:
I was first year law student in Dayton, Ohio. Left a friend’s house that night and while driving home tuned in to News Radio 88 which barely came in on the car radio. Heard the score which if I remember correctly was 93-79 and couldn’t believe it. Got home and spent a dime to call King Wally’s Sports Phone which confirmed it. We started that year 9-8 and my fellow students were chiding me that St. John’s was dropping down to Division 2. We came within a bucket of playing Magic’s Michigan St. team in the final 4 that year. At that point when friends saw me they would say ST. JOHN’S!
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Never knew this book existed. Remember the jingles for sports phone when I was a kid.

 
Andrew said:
Definitely not the worst loss but one that bothered me a lot was the NCAA tournament game in 1990 vs Duke in the second round. A lot of favorable calls to Duke.
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Excruciating one, saw Billy Singleton play in high school, in AAU & SJU and fairly certain this low key guy never got a technical in his life, net of that crucial, momentum breaking one.
 
Andrew said:
Definitely not the worst loss but one that bothered me a lot was the NCAA tournament game in 1990 vs Duke in the second round. A lot of favorable calls to Duke.
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Speaking of Duke, Coach K getting his 1,000th win against us was another one that stung me bad. Another game that we were leading for much of it and melted down. I still remember Tyus Jones sticking his f'n leg out on a three and getting the call late in that one. That was back when the refs fell for it every time
 
For me # 1 was the Ohio State loss where we were so close to getting back to the Final Four. Number 2 is probably the absolute beatdown we took in the 2019 BET from Marquette; it was Mullin's last year which started full of promise and the first time I made the trip from NC to see us play at MSG; the whole team (except for Simon in the first half) looked checked out with an abysmal effort. I was embarrassed to have taken my daughter and son-in-law to see this as their first St. John's game
 
NCJohnnie said:
For me # 1 was the Ohio State loss where we were so close to getting back to the Final Four. Number 2 is probably the absolute beatdown we took in the 2019 BET from Marquette; it was Mullin's last year which started full of promise and the first time I made the trip from NC to see us play at MSG; the whole team (except for Simon in the first half) looked checked out with an abysmal effort. I was embarrassed to have taken my daughter and son-in-law to see this as their first St. John's game
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I made time to get to three quarterfinals in a row under Mullin. I believe they were all Noon games on a Thursday. In 2017 lost to Villanova by 41, 2018 lost to Xavier by 28 and that Marquette game lost by 27 which may have been the worst because we were fighting for an NCAA spot.
 
MainMan said:
Gtown in 85? Ohio State in 99?

Not even close.

It's the losses that made me realize we're not the same program anymore.

Here are two that will always stay with me:

Nov 26, 1995 - UC Irvine wins the Joe Lapchick Memorial Tournament 83-77 snapping St. John’s 41-game winning streak in the tournament.

This was Felipe, Zendon and Tarik's sophomore year, which I envisioned when they signed as the year we win the national championship with role player seniors like Minlend, Barrett, Lyson, Brown helping the superstar underclassmen. And we end up with one of the worst seasons in school history.

Here go down memory lane: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-11-26-sp-7397-story.html

Nov. 24, 2004 - St. Francis 53-52 on the night Alumni Hall becomes Carnesecca Arena. Norm being Norm.

Here you go. Punch yourself in the face: https://nypost.com/2004/11/24/red-storm-shocked-on-looies-big-night/
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The Kevin Simmons aspect made it an even bigger slap in the face.
 
matt105 said:
I remember a terrible loss to Columbia @ 1979 at their gym .They had a short point guard who we could not control . I was so upset that I was driving
up one way streets the wrong way in Manhattan . I scared my fiancee to death .
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Forget his name but he played w/Ricky Free
 
Andrew said:
I made time to get to three quarterfinals in a row under Mullin. I believe they were all Noon games on a Thursday. In 2017 lost to Villanova by 41, 2018 lost to Xavier by 28 and that Marquette game lost by 27 which may have been the worst because we were fighting for an NCAA spot.
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Hey, we were at least showing signs of improvement
 
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