You can sense that, “Oh, no, I won’t let it happen to me again” feeling with this team, can’t you? We — the fans, the college basketball media, the community at large — are not quite ready to buy in. Who can blame us?
Right now, many don’t want to be thinking it, but are — is St. John’s a fraud?
New coach, a bunch of seniors that’ve never proven anything before. This is a flash in the pan, this 3-0 start in the loaded Big East for a team that’s not even a shell of the program it was a score (and many, many scores) ago.
Can’t be for real, right?
No. Wrong.
This St. John’s team, it exists, I assure you, and it is for real, though “real” can and must be quantified. At the very least, I have to proclaim Steve Lavin’s team is no fraud. Not with a win on the road at West Virginia and clutch home victory over Georgetown, one of the most efficient, adaptable teams in the nation. That win over then-undefeated Northwestern was a feel-gooder as well.
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