Wed 1/6 games

[sju88grad]

Disappointed in the loss but had zero expectations that SJU could even keep it close. Bummed we lost Sima for the 2nd half. Thought we would go winless in the Big East this year but starting to see some real progress. Maybe we can steal a few!

[xsteve1]

Disappointed in the loss but had zero expectations that SJU could even keep it close. Bummed we lost Sima for the 2nd half. Thought we would go winless in the Big East this year but starting to see some real progress. Maybe we can steal a few!

Definitely seeing improvement from SJU. They look they have bought in and are playing with a lot of effort. Especially after watching them go through the motions against NJIT and Incarnate word.

[xavierfano8]

Good fight by St. John's. Lost a ton of respect for Bluiett tonight. What a flopper. Throwing his head back every time a defender comes with in a few feet of him. Play the game.

If the refs consistently call it can you really blame him?

Anyway St. John's played great, would have been real interesting if Sima could have played. Xavier played pretty bad but that's life on the road when your ranked. Really hope Sumner can get back soon he just provides some things that others on the team can't.

[RedStormHoops]

Good fight by St. John's. Lost a ton of respect for Bluiett tonight. What a flopper. Throwing his head back every time a defender comes with in a few feet of him. Play the game.

Difference between a flop and selling a foul, when he gets bumped, he lets the refs know.

Come on. The play where mussini got the technical for spiking the ball, you can see in the background during that replay that after the call Bluiett was walking towards his bench, Christian Jones was standing still looking at the refs, Bluiett brushed up against jones shoulder and threw his head back trying to get a technical, either that or it's just a reflex at this point

[BEX]

SJU outplayed X in every way and really deserved to win. X lucky to survive. Hopefully a wake up call because the last 3 road efforts for X have been ugly.

Ugly win but X got the stops when they needed to.

[RedStormHoops]

SJU outplayed X in every way and really deserved to win. X lucky to survive. Hopefully a wake up call because the last 3 road efforts for X have been ugly.

Ugly win but X got the stops when they needed to.

You can really see what not having Sumner does to them. Disjointed at times, make some bad passes, just not as crisp. A true freshmen already has that much impact on your team, congrats, you got yourselves a very very good one

[BEX]

Yeah, be good to have Ed back soon. He's the sparkplug.

[BlueBlobsBro]

SJU outplayed X in every way and really deserved to win. X lucky to survive. Hopefully a wake up call because the last 3 road efforts for X have been ugly.

First time I've ever seen someone say a team that literally led the entire game should've lost..........

[xsteve1]

SJU outplayed X in every way and really deserved to win. X lucky to survive. Hopefully a wake up call because the last 3 road efforts for X have been ugly.

Ugly win but X got the stops when they needed to.

You can really see what not having Sumner does to them. Disjointed at times, make some bad passes, just not as crisp. A true freshmen already has that much impact on your team, congrats, you got yourselves a very very good one

Agree X is a top 5 team with him. Hope he comes back playing the way he was before the concussion.

[SJHooper]

If this was next year, St. John's wins this game. I'm ok with the technical. Extremely tough given the timing, but you can't slam the ball like that. Learning experience for Mussini. Expected us to be down about 30. Shocked to see that we made it a 1 pt game and had momentum until that awful tech. Sima was out for much of the 2nd half if not all. Can't even remember. So basically we took X down to the wire without 1 player who would start on any Big East team. That's impressive to me. None of our truly high caliber recruits are here yet. These are the role players that you see playing this year. Guys that will be on the bench next year and the year after. The skill is not there, the athleticism is not there, but the one thing Mullin brings that Lavin did not is toughness and grit. Lavin teams tended to lay down more.

To be honest, if we beat X it would have been atrocious for the conference. People would be saying X has no business being a top 10 team and that our conference is overrated. Not to mention killing their RPI and ranking. So it was the perfect medium, we showed lots of effort and fight, but they won in the end as they should have.

Good game by X, still weird not seeing Stainbrook. I'm so used to it. It always amused me to see a doofy white guy playing so well LOL.