Nicholson's jumper stuns Steve Lavin and St. John's [NY Daily News]

The rising momentum of St. John's basketball took a hit Tuesday night. All the buzz and excitement new coach Steve Lavin started by landing one of the best recruiting classes in the country only gathered steam as the team opened 5-1 and won the Great Alaska Shootout.

St. Bonaventure put the brakes on all that Tuesday night.


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This sums my thoughts up.  If the Bonnies are outrebounding us by 10 what's gonna happen in the Big East?

"It's hard to see this as anything but a bad loss for St. John's (5-2), which had its five-game winning streak snapped. St. Bonaventure (5-2) was picked 13th of 14 teams in the Atlantic 10's preseason coaches poll"

What's going to have to happen is Coker is going to have to play. We were outrebounded in large part due to size, not position.

Man for man, they have equal talent. We just need to accept that these kids, although well meaning, really haven't improved that much since they got here.