St. John's Prepares for Key Game at MSG vs. Marquette on Tuesday

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00:00What a game we have tonight inside the world's most famous arena. It is 12th ranked st

00:04John's atop the big east standings at this moment 10 and 1 in conference play

00:10Against the 9 and 2 big east team in marquette ranked 11th in the country john

00:15We'll get to the x's and o's we'll get to the key matchups in just a moment there

00:19You see the numbers on this screen, but for context and atmosphere tonight inside madison square garden

00:26This is st. John's biggest game inside msg

00:30Since when in your estimation?

00:34You know in terms of this game ben

00:36I think you know you can obviously make a lot of different cases for a lot of different games given the

00:41Circumstances but in terms of the totality of this week playing marquette tonight at madison square garden playing yukon

00:48Friday at gampel pavilion. This is as big a week as the st

00:51John's program has had in a long time. Maybe a quarter of a century

00:54Remember st. John's has not won a game in the ncw tournament since 2000 and st

00:59John's if it can win a pair of games this week would put itself in the pole position

01:05To win at least a share of the big east regular season title for the first time since the 91 92 season

01:12That's the last year that luke karnosaka roamed the sidelines for this program

01:17But ben, you know things like that make for great conversation for people from the periphery and I understand that

01:23But if you really want to get into the nuts and bolts of things

01:25This is a pretty significant week for st. John's from an ncw tournament seeding standpoint

01:30I know that the red storms have been highly ranked the last couple of weeks

01:34But the facts are the facts right now as of today st

01:37John's just has one quad one win this season

01:41So in order to have a seed that reflects the type of season that st

01:45John's is having it needs to start stacking wins against top flight competition

01:50St. John's will still have two games against marquette two games against yukon a home game

01:57Against creighton and also a road game at villanova that as of today still falls within the top

02:03One or excuse me the top 75 of the net which makes the quad one game

02:07A big week begets big opportunity tonight in the garden against marquette friday on the road against yukon

02:14So let's dive into the nuts and bolts john of this individual

02:18Matchup, you'll be watching tonight inside msg

02:21What is the key matchup between st. John's and marquette?

02:25Well, I think the one thing that we have seen with marquette is that when marquette's ancillary pieces play at a really really high level

02:33Guys like chase ross and ben gold marquette goes to a completely different level

02:37So taking away those guys are going to be paramount for st

02:41John's to come away with a win and st

02:43John's here at some point is going to have to become a more capable outside shooting team

02:50The grit the determination all the attributes that make up vintage rick patino teams are great

02:55And it's willed this team to 19 wins in its first 22 games

02:59But to go far in the ncaa tournament to go to the second weekend of the ncaa tournament sooner or later

03:05You have to knock down some shots. Qadari richmond's who is starting to separate himself again

03:10Is one of the best players in the big east again made two three-point shots on saturday against providence

03:16You can't rely on him to be a consistent outside shooter as of yet

03:20But you can start to have the conversation that qadari richmond is starting to look again

03:25Like qadari richmond in elite performance on saturday against providence and in his last five games is averaging about

03:3216.6 rebounds six assists. He's like a swiss army nut

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