St. John's Enters AP Top 10, Aiming for NCAA Glory

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00:00St. John's ranked in the top 10 of the AP poll for the first time since 2000, 25 years.

00:07And how about this?

00:08This is the first time this season that when I give you the big board, St. John's is actually

00:14on it.

00:15How about that?

00:16Auburn, Duke, Houston, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, Iowa State, Kansas, and the Johnnies

00:22have made the big board for the national title favorites.

00:26How about that?

00:27Yeah, listen.

00:28I know that Danny Hurley said they don't crown champions in February, but he's not getting

00:34crowned this year.

00:35I can guarantee you that.

00:36So they shouldn't be on that board.

00:38They don't matter.

00:39They'll have their own problems tonight in Omaha.

00:40That would be a big win for UConn because they can't beat anybody else that matters.

00:44If they went to Creighton and won that game, to me, that'd be a big win.

00:48St. John's is now, Luke's got me on the hook.

00:52I am now rooting for Patino and the Johnnies the rest of the way.

00:55That's the team I'm going to root for.

00:57And another team I like that's dangerous as all hell is Florida.

01:03But I have already said to you before the season even began, before it even started,

01:09I picked Duke to play for a national championship with Cooper Flagg.

01:12Now I was really concerned with what I saw at Little John on Sunday, whatever it was,

01:18Saturday when I saw him get shut down and they got beat by Clemson.

01:23That concerned me because all that great defense and all that Cooper Flagg stuff went

01:27down the toilet at Clemson.

01:30So they got to play a lot better to win the NCAA championship or be in the title game

01:33for that matter.

01:34You've got to play your best ball and win those six games to get it done.

01:40And the way they played at Little John doesn't cut the mustard.

01:44You know, I was saying this to Luke yesterday because he was all pumped up about the Johnnies

01:49and the same thing with Duke.

01:50I don't mind if you lose a game here or there in February.

01:55I don't mind that at all.

01:56I think it's bad, as weird as this sounds, to go into March, to go into the NCAA tournament

02:02on some 10, 12, 15 game win streak.

02:06I think it adds too much pressure.

02:08You start getting asked about win streaks.

02:11You want no distractions.

02:12You just want to go game by game and not worry about some long winning streak.

02:16I don't think it's the worst thing that Duke lost that game.

02:19I still think they're going to be in the Final Four like you.

02:20Flag's ridiculous.

02:22And they're going to get themselves there.

02:24The Johnnies?

02:25Now that would be a lot of fun.

02:26Especially around here if they actually made it to the Final Four.

02:30And 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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