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St. John's Enters AP Top 10, Aiming for NCAA Glory
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2/11/2025
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St. John's ranked in the top 10 of the AP poll for the first time since 2000, 25 years.
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And how about this?
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This is the first time this season that when I give you the big board, St. John's is actually
00:14
on it.
00:15
How about that?
00:16
Auburn, Duke, Houston, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, Iowa State, Kansas, and the Johnnies
00:22
have made the big board for the national title favorites.
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How about that?
00:27
Yeah, listen.
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I know that Danny Hurley said they don't crown champions in February, but he's not getting
00:34
crowned this year.
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I can guarantee you that.
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So they shouldn't be on that board.
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They don't matter.
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They'll have their own problems tonight in Omaha.
00:40
That would be a big win for UConn because they can't beat anybody else that matters.
00:44
If they went to Creighton and won that game, to me, that'd be a big win.
00:48
St. John's is now, Luke's got me on the hook.
00:52
I am now rooting for Patino and the Johnnies the rest of the way.
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That's the team I'm going to root for.
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And another team I like that's dangerous as all hell is Florida.
01:03
But I have already said to you before the season even began, before it even started,
01:09
I picked Duke to play for a national championship with Cooper Flagg.
01:12
Now I was really concerned with what I saw at Little John on Sunday, whatever it was,
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Saturday when I saw him get shut down and they got beat by Clemson.
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That concerned me because all that great defense and all that Cooper Flagg stuff went
01:27
down the toilet at Clemson.
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So they got to play a lot better to win the NCAA championship or be in the title game
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for that matter.
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You've got to play your best ball and win those six games to get it done.
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And the way they played at Little John doesn't cut the mustard.
01:44
You know, I was saying this to Luke yesterday because he was all pumped up about the Johnnies
01:49
and the same thing with Duke.
01:50
I don't mind if you lose a game here or there in February.
01:55
I don't mind that at all.
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I think it's bad, as weird as this sounds, to go into March, to go into the NCAA tournament
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on some 10, 12, 15 game win streak.
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I think it adds too much pressure.
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You start getting asked about win streaks.
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You want no distractions.
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You just want to go game by game and not worry about some long winning streak.
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I don't think it's the worst thing that Duke lost that game.
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I still think they're going to be in the Final Four like you.
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Flag's ridiculous.
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And they're going to get themselves there.
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The Johnnies?
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Now that would be a lot of fun.
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Especially around here if they actually made it to the Final Four.
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And I don't really care as much about the Big E's, I want them to do well in the NCAAs.
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