Will St. John's Make the NCAA Tournament This Year?

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00:00So, College Basketball, last year St. John's didn't make the tournament.

00:05From what you've seen of them so far and what Patino has, does that end and they make it

00:10this year?

00:11I think they'll make it, but there's no guarantee.

00:14The Big East did not have a great non-conference, so the number of bids that will be available

00:20to the league will probably be pretty limited.

00:23So you're going to have to finish in the top three or four of the league to feel good about

00:27having a chance.

00:28I think they certainly can.

00:30They showed a little bit of struggle early on trying to sort of adapt to Patino's demands,

00:38to alignment situations.

00:40They brought in two point guards and weren't really sure whether to play them together

00:45or how it would work.

00:46I think they're starting to figure that out a little bit better and starting to perform

00:50better.

00:51But you've got to watch, if you're St. John's right now, you've got to watch for Creighton.

00:55Creighton can get a lot better in a hurry.

00:58They struggled early on, but they're still dangerous.

01:01Xavier, Zach Fremantleback, they can get dangerous, as well as Villanova, which is starting to

01:07play better.

01:08All those teams can take a run at one of the three or four bids that likely will be available

01:13to the Big East.

01:14What do you think of Pitt tonight getting 14.5 at Duke?

01:17They're both 12-2.

01:19Yeah, I think that the key for Duke here is they know they only get so many quad one opportunities.

01:26To get Pitt at home, I don't think they'll mess around with this at all.

01:30I think they'll go right after it.

01:32Whether they can cover, that's a big number.

01:35But I think they win.