St. John's Climbs to 15th in Polls, Faces Georgetown

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00:00certainly a lot of fans of St. John's have to be buzzing at this point. My gosh, they're now up to

00:04ranked 15th in the country in the latest poll. Highest they've been ranked in since 2014. They

00:09take on Georgetown tonight. Five and a half point favorites. Not only has Rick Pitino got this going

00:15in the right direction, I mean, let's say it's the right direction and some at that point. They're

00:20playing great. They are. They've played a really terrific ball together. They do a great job

00:28of finding the matchup. Obviously, that's what you'd expect from Rick Pitino.

00:32He finds what's exploitable and he exploits it. He's been as good a technical basketball coach

00:38as there has been in the last half century. It's one of those things that old saying,

00:44the bum Phillips, he'll take urine and it beat his and his and beat urine.

00:48That's kind of always been Rick is just so good at moving the pieces around.

00:53And he's going against the Georgetown team that has had significant injury problems. Five of their

00:58top six guys have missed a total of nine of seven games, excuse me. And that's made a difference.

01:06Thomas Sorber is about as good a young big guy as there is in college basketball. And he missed

01:11a game and it really cost Georgetown. And so as they try to get themselves back together from a

01:18rotation standpoint and a health standpoint, Georgetown has a real serious challenge on

01:24its hands with St. John's coming in playing such excellent basketball.