One more victory.
This is all that will take in St. John’s to guarantee a part of his first regular title of Big East since 1992 – just one more victory (or one more loss of Creighton, to be exact). So, as I said on The Sunday episode of The Eye on College Basketball PodcastAfter St. John’s beaten Uconn 89-75 to improve at 24-4 in total and 15-2 in the league, this happens.
St. John’s is going to be a Big East champion – either a co -champion for the first time since 1992, or a pure and simple champion for the first time since 1985. And, at this stage, a pure and simple conference championship is the most likely scenario.
“We really want this Big East crown,” said St. John’s Rick Pitino coach“Not only for the players, but (also) for the fans who returned.”
Boy, ask fans to come back. Have you seen Madison Square Garden on Sunday? It was filled with full capacity and especially red, which was not always the case during the visit of Uconn. But, yes, fans of consecutive champions were in numerical inferiority at MSG this time, which is one of the many ways to illustrate the path traveled by Pitino in just two short years.
St. John’s moved to number 8 in the basketball rankings of CBS Sports 25 and 1 colleges on Monday morning, which led to the thrust of Iowa State and Wisconsin, without fault. In the meantime, Auburn remains n ° 1 for the 48th consecutive day. The tigers of Bruce Pearl have a 25-2 file in total and 14-2 in the quadrant 1. This means that they have at least five additional victories than anyone and also less total losses.
