St. John's Surge in NCAA: A Formidable Tournament Threat

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00:00I want to ask you, you have St. John's as a four.

00:04They have been unbelievable.

00:05They were down 10 to Creighton and they still got it done at the Garden.

00:09How dangerous do you think Patino's team is going into the tournament?

00:13I don't care about the Big East Tournament.

00:14I care about the NCAA.

00:15Yeah, well, as they continue to see, they didn't have any quality wins at all two weeks

00:21ago.

00:22None.

00:23And then they beat Marquette and they beat UConn and now they beat Creighton.

00:27So they get more and more confidence in their ability to beat great teams as they go through

00:33the rest of their backloaded conference schedule.

00:35So if they can continue to play like this and maybe take one more loss or maybe two

00:41more losses if they don't win their conference tournament, this is going to be a dangerous

00:44team.

00:45If they can avoid the kind of a slump that erodes confidence, St. John's is going to

00:50be a dangerous team in the NCAA tournament.

00:52Yeah, and you have them in that same bracket with Auburn and Purdue and A&M is the two

01:00in that South.

01:02That is going to be a hell of a region.

01:03They all are, obviously.

01:05You have in the West Florida the one, Wisconsin the two.

01:09Florida continues to, I think, show everyone that they mean business.

01:14They win big games.

01:16They do.

01:17Well, they've got the best win anybody can get.

01:19They won at Auburn.

01:20That's the best win.

01:23But they don't have a lot of those kinds of wins because they didn't really play a good

01:26non-conference schedule.

01:27So when you look at their resume compared to some of these other teams in their league

01:32and outside their league, they don't have the high-quality wins, the number of high-quality

01:37wins that some of these other teams do.

01:39But when they get high-quality wins, they are high-quality wins.

01:44And Auburn is certainly one of them.

01:45And they beat Tennessee soundly as well.

01:48Yeah, this is a team that's proving that it's pretty good.

01:52And the committee obviously felt they were worthy of a one seed, and I agree with them

01:55on that.

01:56So yeah, one seed kind of team right now.