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I just hope I'm not setting myself up for another disappointment with St. John's. Every year I believe things will be different, and then reality smacks me in the face as soon as they play a team with a pulse. I'm firmly on the Pitino bandwagon, but this one is going to really hurt if it turns out to be fools gold again. Go Johnnies!!

hoops22 wrote:I just hope I'm not setting myself up for another disappointment with St. John's. Every year I believe things will be different, and then reality smacks me in the face as soon as they play a team with a pulse. I'm firmly on the Pitino bandwagon, but this one is going to really hurt if it turns out to be fools gold again. Go Johnnies!!

I'm on the wagon also. Would love to see the Johnies succeed and put NYC back in the CBB map.

But I think Johnies fans gotta keep it real too. Its year 1. Pitino is Pitino, i get it. But still - its year 1 of a complete team overhaul.

I think I winning team that is in the running for March Madness late would be great. An NCAA bid would be the cherry on the top

Fanta’s Big East Preview:

https://amp.foxsports.com/stories/colle ... s-to-watch

247 Big East preview:

https://247sports.com/longformarticle/b ... 52047/amp/

Should be a pretty good AP poll with two non-BE top 5 teams losing. Real tests start this week.

AP:

#4 Marquette (+1)
#5 UConn (+1)
#8 Creighton (-)
#21 Villanova (+1)

#28 St. John's (47 votes and 11 ahead of UCLA)

AP T25 11/13:

#4 Marquette
#5 Connecticut
#8 Creighton
#21 Villanova
#RV28 St. John's

Let's just get Marquette, UConn, and Creighton to be ranked #1, #2, and 33 when Big East play starts in a month. That would be incredible.

Torvik:

3 UConn
5 Creighton
8 Villanova
9 Marquette
40 Providence
53 Xavier
60 St. John's
68 Seton Hall
83 Butler
148 Georgetown
177 DePaul

Kenpom:

3 UConn
6 Marquette
14 Villanova
15 Creighton
29 Xavier
52 Providence
65 Seton Hall
67 Butler
74 St. John's
167 DePaul
168 Georgetown

Kind of surprised to see DePaul not in the 200s, but we really need them and Georgetown to improve their metrics before conference play. Anyone know when NET comes out?