12 players went 5-0 this week, well done. It sounds like a broken record but @GrMtWoods was again one of those, improving to an astounding 65-10 through 75 games, and still leads by four games over @hallball. Four players are tied for third at 60-15, still an incredible record this deep into the season.


Friday, February 16

Villanova (13-11, 6-7) @ Georgetown (8-16, 1-12) - 7:00 PM - CBSSN - CapOne/DC


Saturday, February 17

#17 Creighton (18-7, 9-5) @ Butler (15-9, 7-7) - 12:30 PM - FOX - Hinkle/Indy

#4 Marquette (19-5, 10-3) @ #1 Connecticut (23-2, 13-1) - 3:00 PM - FOX - XL/Hartford

DePaul (3-21, 0-13) @ Providence (16-9, 7-7) - 7:30 PM - FS1 - AMP/Providence


Sunday, February 18

SETON HALL (16-9, 9-5) @ St. John's (14-11, 6-8) - 5:00 PM - FS1 - UBS/Elmont

"It's not St. John's, it's my team"

Throwing his players under the bus:

"Look: Joel's slow laterally, he's not fast on the court. Chris Ledlum is slow laterally, Sean Conway's slow laterally. Brady's physically weak, Drissa is slow laterally."

"After I spent the summer with them, I knew it was gonna be a difficult year. I knew it. I'm hoping we could finish over .500 for the season."

"It's not the job. You could be at Missouri and recruit slow players. Believe me, it's not St. John's. We had to put together a team at the last second. We will never, ever, do that again."

And not a fan of the facilities they use either, despite having the use of 3 different home courts:

"Do we have sh--ty facilities? Yes, we do. But we're doing something about that."

(Quotes courtesy of Jaden Daly and Zach Braziller)

Take care of business at Home. Creighton and UConn are for seeding. Next Saturday is huge.

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Team a Q1? I don't care who've they beaten that record 1 win over .500 should exclude them from top qjarter

Another quad 1 away win. Still behind maryland. What a joke these metrics are.

Beat Nova!🏴‍☠️

From ESPN : Major point highlighted in bold at bottom

“In the past three NCAA tournament selections, we've seen a team ranked as high on the NET as No. 38 (North Texas 2023) left out of the field entirely. Conversely, a team ranked No. 77 (Rutgers 2022) did earn an at-large bid.

Clearly the NET isn't the only factor driving projections by mock brackets or, for that matter, actual decisions by the committee. Nevertheless, there are tendencies that have surfaced over the past three Selection Sundays.

Start with the extremes already noted. No team ranked higher than No. 38 in the NET has missed the cut in the past three years. At the same time, no team lower than No. 77 has earned an at-large bid over that span. Call this range from Nos. 38 to 77 the NET's temperate zone.

These boundaries aren't etched in granite. If the committee loves a team's profile next month, the members won't be stopped in their tracks just because the NET ranking happens to be No. 78.

Still, history suggests the odds of an at-large bid do grow significantly longer as NET rankings become lower. In the past three years, a ranking in the mid-50s in the NET, for example, has provided one rough rule of thumb.

At-large candidates in the range from Nos. 38 to 55 have made it into the field about half the time. On the other hand, at-large hopefuls from Nos. 56 to 77 have received good news in just 12% of the cases.“

We have a lot of work to do still. If you think simply beating St Johns and Butler will be enough, you’re mistaken. Winning those games will simply keep us from dropping further.

We either have to beat UConn or Creighton like I said earlier or we have to handily beat all the other teams and play extremely tight against the big 2 and that still might not be enough.

When your two biggest wins are months in the past and metrics like ours the committee will love to keep us out. Not fight to put us in.

Game 26: St. John's Red Storm (14-11, 6-8 BIG EAST) vs. Seton Hall Pirates (16-9, 9-5 BIG EAST)
Sunday, Feb. 18 • Elmont, N.Y. • UBS Arena (18,500) • 5 p.m.
TV: FS1 • Lisa Byington & Sarah Kustok
Web: FOXSports.com/Live
Radio: SHU Pirates Mobile App / Pirate Sports Network / SiriusXM 381 / SXM App / Gary Cohen & Dave Popkin
Game Notes: Seton Hall | St. John's
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NOTES YOU NEED TO KNOW

• Winners of three of its last four games, the Seton Hall men's basketball team will face another tough road test as the Pirates take on St. John's at UBS Arena on Sunday at 5 p.m.
• Picked to finish ninth out of 11 teams in the BIG EAST preseason poll, the Pirates are tied with Creighton for third place in the BIG EAST standings at 9-5 and they're two full games ahead of Butler, Xavier and Providence in the loss column.
• The Pirates are 6-7 vs. Q1 + Q2 opponents as they picked up a Q2 win in a 88-70 win over Xavier on Wednesday evening.
• The victory gave Seton Hall its ninth consecutive season with at least nine BIG EAST wins, the longest stretch in program history.
• Seton Hall is one of only 28 teams in Division I with at least four Quad 1 wins.
• The Hall's four Q1 victories are more than 39 teams that are ranked ahead of the Pirates in the NET rankings.
• Seton Hall is one of 16 teams in the country with multiple wins over top 10 teams.
• Of the Pirates' nine wins in BIG EAST play, three have come against ranked opponents (No. 5 UConn, No. 23 Providence, No. 7 Marquette).
• Seton Hall trails the all-time series with St. John's, 49-62, but the Pirates lead the all-time series in BIG EAST regular season games, 39-36.
• The Pirates have won eight of the last 10 meetings against the Red Storm including the last three.
• Located in the Jamaica section of Queens, N.Y., St. John's is a stones throw away from where Seton Hall head coach Shaheen Holloway grew up South Jamaica.
• Holloway is 1-2 in his career against Rick Pitino as both were head coaches in the MAAC at Saint Peter's and Iona, respectively.
• In his first game against his former team, Dylan Addae-Wusu helped lead Seton Hall to a commanding 80-65 victory over the Johnnies as he posted 16 points, 10 rebounds and five assists.
• Kadary Richmond has averaged 11.8 points, 7.6 rebounds and 5.8 assists and five career games against St. John's.
• Since his return to the lineup at DePaul on Jan. 30, Richmond has posted two 20-point games and is averaging 17.3 points, 6.3 rebounds and eight assists over three games.
• Richmond's 20-point, 13-assist and eight-rebound game against the Musketeers on Wednesday was his seventh game this season with 20+ points, 5+ rebounds and 5+ assists, the second-most among Div. I players.
• Seven of Richmond's 10 career 20-point games have come in BIG EAST play this season.
• Jaden Bediako ranks second in the BIG EAST and seventh in Division I averaging 3.9 offensive rebounds per game.
• Seton Hall ranks third in the BIG EAST and 10th nationally with a 78 percent clip from the free throw line.
• The Pirates are 14-4 this season when Al-Amir Dawes scores in double figures and 6-2 when he's the team's leading scorer.
• Seton Hall is 15-1 this season when leading at halftime.

At least that is what Vegas is saying opening Seton Hall as a 7.5 road dog

Common opinion says the Hall will win their final 3 home games and lose their 3 road games. That's how I see it, but this will be our best chance to buck the trend.

St John's 73
Seton Hall 71

With this team, the students, the fan base in general?

Knocking Butler down into the last four in would allow us to bump them with a home win over them.
Moving into third place in the big east with four games left is not carrying weight this year.

thoughts?

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QUEENS, N.Y. (Feb. 16, 2024) – St. John’s will play its third and final contest at UBS Arena this season when it hosts Seton Hall on Sunday at 5 p.m.

FS1 will carry the national telecast for the matchup between the Red Storm (14-11, 6-8) and Pirates (16-9, 9-5) in Elmont, N.Y. FOX Sports announcers Lisa Byington and Sarah Kustok are on the call for the 112th meeting in series history. An audio broadcast of the game on the LEARFIELD Red Storm Sports Network with John Minko and Brandon Tierney will also be available on a variety of platforms including the Varsity Network App, TuneIn Radio, RedStormSports.com and the St. John's Red Storm mobile app. The radio broadcast can also be heard on SiriusXM channel 382 and the SiriusXM App.

The Johnnies will host the “BIG EAST Road Trip” on Sunday at UBS Arena. The conference’s 13-stop mobile tour began on Jan. 10 and will visit each member school to help expand the gameday celebrations for their respective fanbases. The interactive pop-up will include pregame entertainment and activities located just inside the main entrance at UBS Arena. The BIG EAST championship trophy will also be on display.

St. John’s has won its previous two contests in Elmont, N.Y., defeating Hofstra (Dec. 30) and DePaul (Feb. 6). The Red Storm has averaged 84.5 points and has shot 42.6 percent from the field in its two wins at UBS Arena this season. Daniss Jenkins (17.5 ppg) and Jordan Dingle (14.5 ppg) have also been the team’s top scorers in those contests.

In their last contest at UBS Arena, the Johnnies set a program record for most threes against a BIG EAST opponent by hitting 15 in a 28-point win over DePaul on Feb. 6. Jenkins and Dingle each hit four 3-pointers and finished with a game-high 14 points apiece.

In a series that began in 1909, St. John’s and Seton Hall have played every season since the 1963-64 campaign. The Red Storm has dropped the last three games versus the Pirates and look for its first win since Jan. 24, 2022, when St. John’s downed Seton Hall, 84-63, inside Walsh Gymnasium.

On Sunday, the Red Storm will also look to split the regular season series with Seton Hall after dropping its matchup on Jan. 16 in Newark. St. John’s was without Hall of Fame coach Rick Pitino and Dingle, who both missed the contest due to illness.

Seton Hall has won three of its last four games and is coming off an 88-70 victory over Xavier on Wednesday at Prudential Center. Senior guard Kadary Richmond led the Pirates with 20 points, 13 assists and eight rebounds in the win over the Musketeers.

The Pirates enter Sunday’s contest with a 4-4 record in road games this season. Richmond has averaged a team-best 15.6 points, 4.6 assists and 2.1 steals on the road. As a team, Seton Hall has registered 63.8 points per game while shooting 30.6 percent (44-144 3FG) from distance in away contests.

After hosting Seton Hall on Sunday, St. John’s will travel to Washington, D.C. for a matchup Georgetown on Wednesday. Tip-off is scheduled for 7 p.m. with the live broadcast airing on FS1.

To date

1. Hurley
King of the Hill until someone knocks him off his perth

2. Holloway
Wed bumped him back here after last weekend's fiasco

3. Smart
8 in a row. Saturday at UConn will tell us more

4. Matta
Hanging here for now. Next two against Creighton and Nova will tell us if this is legit

5. McDermott
Schedule is going to get a lot tougher

6. English
Two easy W's and 4 tough games will tell the story

7. Miller
No show yesterday drops him

8. Neptune
Two vs Georgetown tells nothing. But the rest of the schedule will

9. Pitino
Easiest remaining schedule will help

10. Cooley
+/- taking a recent pounding

11. Stubblefield/Brady
Could be the worst team in the history of the league

Anything can happen vs a certain matchup, right now cant see how they are not the east champ to final four

Hall of Fame college basketball coach Lefty Driesell dead at 92​

By Ryan Glasspiegel

Legendary former college basketball coach Charles Grice “Lefty” Driesell has died at 92 years old.

The news was first announced by former Maryland congressman Tom McMillen, who played for Driesell at Maryland, on Facebook.

Driesell was most known for his time coaching Maryland from 1969-86, and also had head coaching tenures at Davidson, James Madison and Georgia State.

From 1986-88, he also served as Maryland’s assistant athletics director.

Driesell’s college head coaching record was 786–394, and his Terrapins won the NIT in 1972, the ACC Tournament in 1984 and the regular season ACC championship in 1975 and 1980.

Driesell coached four teams to the Elite Eight and four to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament.

He also won conference coach of the year honors seven times combined at his three other coaching stops.

He is the only coach in NCAA history to have been named Coach of the Year in four different conferences (Southern Conference, Atlantic Coast Conference, Colonial Athletic Association, Atlantic Sun Conference).

Driesell was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2018.

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Driesell resigned from Maryland in 1986 after small forward Len Bias, who had been selected second overall in the NBA draft by the Celtics, died of a cocaine overdose.

Driesell was accused of instructing assistant coach Oliver Purnell to cover up evidence of drug use at the scene.

“If I told him to clean up the room, I don’t remember it,” Driesell told The Ringer in 2021. “I remember, I think, telling him to go and tell the players to come to my house. I might’ve asked him, ‘Did you clean up the room?’ Or ‘Did you see any drugs?’ But I don’t remember that. I don’t think that.”

“Hey, hold it, hold it,” he continued. “Say I did? So the freak what? He was in the hospital, they were going to find out if he was on drugs. Right? I mean, I never told him to clean out. I don’t think. I don’t know, maybe I did. But I wasn’t trying to hide that he was on drugs. Hey, everybody knew he was—the doctors were going to find out whether he was on drugs. I never told Oliver that, I don’t think. I think I told him to go over there and tell them to come to my house. Ask him.”

Driesell later added, “See, that’s what I don’t like about talking about this! To you or anybody else! I never— I loved Leonard Bias! If I thought he was on drugs, I’d have kicked his ass off the team. And—how the hell do I remember something 35 years ago?”

Other players who starred for Driesell at Maryland included Adrian Branch, Brad Davis, Albert King, Len Elmore, John Lucas and Buck Williams.

Driesell played center at Duke from 1951-54.

Detroit Mercy takes down IUPUI to end 27-game losing streak​

Associated Press

DETROIT -- Jayden Stone scored 25 points and Detroit Mercy beat IUPUI 81-66 on Wednesday night to end a 27-game losing streak, dating to last season.

Detroit Mercy (1-26, 1-15 Horizon League) won its first game since topping Purdue Fort Wayne in last year's conference tournament. The Titans entered the day as one of two winless teams, joining Mississippi Valley State (0-24).

Detroit Mercy's losing streak was a Horizon League record, moving past the 23 Cleveland State lost in 2003-04. Detroit Mercy's previous program mark was 15 straight losses following a 0-14 start to the 1987-88 season.

Stone, scoring a league-best 20.4 points per game, added six rebounds for the Titans. Marcus Tankersley scored 19 points while shooting 5-of-8 from the field and 9-for-9 from the line. Mak Manciel had 14 points and shot 4-for-9 from beyond the arc.

DJ Jackson led the Jaguars (6-21, 2-14) in scoring, finishing with 17 points and two steals. Kidtrell Blocker added 11 points, and Jlynn Counter had 10 points, seven rebounds, seven assists and three steals.

The Jaguars, who have lost seven straight, beat Detroit Mercy 67-55 on Dec. 29.

UCONN 12-1...... who gave them the 1?????? I take pride