St. John's coach Norm Roberts decided a bit of shock treatment was necessary for his team when it gathered for practice the day after a disheartening nine-point home loss to Seton Hall a couple days ago.
Roberts' approach seemed to have paid off.
D.J. Kennedy scored 12 of his 17 points in the second half, helping St. John's to a 74-58 victory against South Florida on Saturday.
"Since we had a really hard loss, and I know everybody's down, why don't we just forfeit the rest of our games?" Roberts recalled telling his players. "I talked to the league. The league said we could forfeit the rest of our games."
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