The first game for St. John's in the annual Holiday Festival pits local Hofstra against St. John's. This is the biggest game of the year! Well, maybe for Hofstra, who would love to beat St. John's as they did the previous meeting of the two schools.
I mean, read this bulls*** from their official release:
The Pride has a four-game winning streak in the series after defeating the Red Storm in four straight seasons from 2003-04 through 2006-07, all of which were by double-digit margins. The final meeting came in the championship game of the 2006 Holiday Festival, which Hofstra won 63-51. St. John's was a perfect 19-0 in the series during the 1900's, but Hofstra is now 5-2 this decade, including wins at four different venues (2000-01 at Nassau Coliseum, 2003-04 and 2005-06 at Carnesecca Arena, 2004-05 at Hofstra's Mack Sports Complex and 2006-07 at Madison Square Garden).
Hofstra is also finishing off a decade in which it has been by far the winningest program in the metropolitan New York area. The Pride has 188 wins since January 1, 2000, 17 more than the next-best team in the region (Manhattan with 171). St. John's is sixth with 150 wins (150-153) in that span, also trailing Seton Hall (165), Rider (164) and Wagner (154). That is one particularly pointed presser. It is high time the Red Storm put those lions on their backsides... and move on to beating Cornell or Davidson, and tune up for Georgetown, a game the national media might give a damn about. It's true - Hofstra beat St. John's in the 2006 Holiday Fesitval, and also in 2005, 2004 (at Hofstra), and 2003.
It's embarrassing. You can't hang your head high after losing to
Hofstra.
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