r/CollegeBasketball • u/cbbBot /r/CollegeBasketball • NCAA • Mar 21 '25
Post Game Thread [Post Game Thread] #6 St. John's defeats Omaha, 83-53
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u/TheConfusedHippo St. John's Red Storm Mar 21 '25
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u/Zloggt Illinois Fighting Illini • Missouri Tigers Mar 21 '25
二十五年来的首场胜利 Comeback victory 牙买加的骄傲 battle against hog man of Arkansas awaits 32支球队确认 Go Johnnies!
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u/LebrontosaurausRex Mar 21 '25
Truly the best thing I've seen today.
Have you read the piece about Rick Pitino Greek League Coach?
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u/DaoDeDickinson Gonzaga Bulldogs Mar 21 '25
Which? I remember some good ones from when he was there but no way I could find them now
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u/galeforcewinds95 New Mexico Lobos Mar 21 '25
Fall behind 7-0. Win by 30. Typical St. John's beatdown.
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u/AsaKurai Virginia Tech Hokies Mar 21 '25
The way it was going even halfway through when the score was tied around the 20s, SJU looked pretty bad, I was worried it was gonna be a close game and then they decided to make their shots
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u/The_Uncut_Gem St. John's Red Storm • UConn Huskies Mar 21 '25
Tonight was a rerun of the Big East Final
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u/gomets6091 St. John's Red Storm Mar 21 '25
And the Big East semi final. And like half their games this season.
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u/Grandahl13 Kentucky Wildcats Mar 21 '25
Patience….college basketball games can take a while to get going.
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u/Glass_Constant_8554 Kentucky Wildcats Mar 21 '25
Counterpoint: Coach P likes to get a shot off in 15 seconds or less
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u/Tasty_Path_3470 St. John's Red Storm • Rutgers Scarlet Kn… Mar 21 '25
I think it was around December when I stopped getting mad and saying “god this team is so fucking ass” whenever games started like this. Then I realized this is what they do.
Then they hit me with the Uno reverse in the Providence game where they blew a 16 point lead and won by 1. This team plays with such an incredibly level head when their shots aren’t falling, it’s when they miss FTs that you start to worry.
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u/sdotmill St. John's Red Storm Mar 21 '25
Haha it was definitely a learning process as a fan this year
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u/Tasty_Path_3470 St. John's Red Storm • Rutgers Scarlet Kn… Mar 21 '25
As a St. John’s and Rutgers fan I’m just used to the teams starting out poorly for the first 10 minutes, and then it continuing for the next 30 haha
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u/VRomero32 St. John's Red Storm Mar 21 '25
I always equate it to fighting main henchman in the movie, “The Raid”… at first you’re like, “this guy” and you get your offense in and then 2 mins later he’s destroying you with 20 hit combos.
Like that or when Ace Ventura fought that tribesman in “Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls”
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u/SaintArkweather Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens • American Un… Mar 21 '25
Crazy fact: This is the first Round of 32 for a New York City team since 2004. That year, Manhattan made it. St. John's themselves hasn't made it since 2000.
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u/TortoiseTortillas Mar 21 '25
True though sometimes it seems like UConn is a NYC team with how they make MSG their home court
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u/FirstPackOut Florida Gators • Mobile Rams Mar 21 '25
Manhattan beat the Gators. That was one of the flattest ive ever seen a Billy Donovan Gator team perform.
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Mar 21 '25
They truly are a second half team.
Congrats St. John’s. You guys are incredible.
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u/RCPCHK St. John's Red Storm • Big East Mar 21 '25
Hey you guys kept it close for a while. No shame in losing to this St. John's squad. Hopefully you guys will make it back next year. Keep on bangin those trash cans, why don't ya.
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u/Tasty_Path_3470 St. John's Red Storm • Rutgers Scarlet Kn… Mar 21 '25
I don’t think I’ve seen a team be more physical boxing out all season. It was truly frustrating to watch as a StJ fan but great to see as a former undersized 3/4. I wasn’t comfortable until I realized you guys were looking for the perfect shot, instead of the open shot, and it just wasn’t falling. Good game, good luck, and get back to the tourney next year!
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u/AtmosphereVarious440 Rutgers Scarlet Knights • Brown Bears Mar 21 '25
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u/ChemicalOle Washington State Cougars • Oreg… Mar 21 '25
Add white shoes and a mint julep and this would've been the greatest picture in CBB history.
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Mar 21 '25
The St Johns gimmick where in the second half they decide you’re not gonna score anymore and they’re gonna make every open 3 is pretty incredible lmao
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u/baachou Maryland Terrapins Mar 21 '25
They didn't exactly let Omaha score in the first half either, lol.
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u/Capital_Basket_7587 BYU Cougars Mar 21 '25
Feel like they had lots of chances in the first half, just couldn’t execute. It probably could’ve been a 10 point game at halftime if they had been hot. They got absolutely shut down in the second though
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u/baachou Maryland Terrapins Mar 21 '25
I did feel like SJ made a bunch of defensive plays in the 2nd half (I've never seen so many step back 3s get blocked lol) but I don't think you miss 15 straight 3s just by good defense - they had some open looks and just bricked.
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u/dont_ask_my_cab Maryland Terrapins Mar 21 '25
Every now and again, seeing Rick Pitino makes me think he literally has been dead -- not that he's undead, but that he somehow got out of being dead with a trade or something. Keith Richards does the same for me, and the Stones opened the day on CBS so maybe why I'm capping with it. Or I'm just yappin' and don't mind me.
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u/NolaBrass Tulane Green Wave Mar 21 '25
He was dead, they sent his corpse to New Rochelle. Not convinced he isn’t some sort of basketball demon coaching Catholic schools as a front
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u/Tasty_Path_3470 St. John's Red Storm • Rutgers Scarlet Kn… Mar 21 '25
“And on the 3rd day, he rose again…”
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u/The_Uncut_Gem St. John's Red Storm • UConn Huskies Mar 21 '25
THE MANDATE OF HEAVEN REMAINS WITH THE PEOPLE’S TEAM
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u/TheConfusedHippo St. John's Red Storm Mar 21 '25
That is one horrifying flair combo, how did that happen?
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u/The_Uncut_Gem St. John's Red Storm • UConn Huskies Mar 21 '25
Connecticut mom/Queens Dad.
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u/TheConfusedHippo St. John's Red Storm Mar 21 '25
Damn, that must be a fun household during rivalry games
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u/The_Uncut_Gem St. John's Red Storm • UConn Huskies Mar 21 '25
Funnily enough they both went to St John’s for grad school. Growing up it was really just the women’s team I cared about outside of the Kemba years, that was like a religion for all the women on my mom’s side. Lots of old Italian women who loved Geno.
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u/Robber_Crab UConn Huskies Mar 21 '25
In all fairness, the Kemba years were a treat to watch unless you were Gary McGhee.
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u/porterbrown St. John's Red Storm • Big East Mar 21 '25
Title game. Pitino walks out in one of Lou Carneseca's sweaters from the 80s.
We. Could. Not. Be. Stopped.
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u/gomets6091 St. John's Red Storm Mar 21 '25
I need to start telling myself these games start 15 minutes later than tip-off time
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u/Tasty_Path_3470 St. John's Red Storm • Rutgers Scarlet Kn… Mar 21 '25
The first 2 blocks of games are the only ones that start on scheduled time. Once you’re passed that they’re at the mercy of the game before it.
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u/gomets6091 St. John's Red Storm Mar 21 '25
Sorry, to be clear this comment was about SJU’s slow starts, not the actual game being late haha. Maybe adjust it to 30 minutes
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u/Tasty_Path_3470 St. John's Red Storm • Rutgers Scarlet Kn… Mar 21 '25
🤣🤣🤣 I am a dumbass
I would be a big fan of St. John’s realizing the correct start time of games, and not waiting until halftime to figure it out
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u/nysom1227 Indiana Hoosiers • Gonzaga Bulldogs Mar 21 '25
Rick Pitino vs John Calipari in the tournament. As an Italian, that's an offer I definitely can't refuse!
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Mar 21 '25
Like John Cena and Randy Orton.
You hate it growing up, but you appreciate it when you get older.
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u/Ze_Bucket Omaha Mavericks Mar 21 '25
That was fun for about 10mins. Then we forgot how to play basketball
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u/CheeryBlond Creighton Bluejays Mar 21 '25
You didn’t forget how to play basketball. This is just what St. John’s does. Pitino has to go into the locker room each halftime and convince his players that they are, in fact, freaks of nature and not some guys he just found in Penn Station and then, boom, you’re down by 20. Don’t blame yourself.
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u/AccidentalRower St. John's Red Storm Mar 21 '25
Rick just threatens to make them take the E instead of the LIRR from Penn if they don't get it together.
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u/Cassandrae_Gemini Mar 21 '25
St. Johns does that every second half to every single team. Dont feel bad. Your team genuinely put up a good fight considering it was their first ever tourney game.
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u/Dhh05594 Creighton Bluejays Mar 21 '25
Dude, St. John's is on another level right now. You guys played really well but they are crazy.
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u/TimmyTruckberg Omaha Mavericks Mar 21 '25
I hope Lance Waddles finds a better way to train his shot this off-season. He has been off way more than he's been on all year.
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u/Judgian_Blast Mar 21 '25
St. John’s has got me watching the most basketball I’ve ever watched in my life. I’m… kinda enjoying it?
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u/randrews202121 Notre Dame Fighting Irish • St. John's … Mar 21 '25
For those who are just now on the bandwagon, we’re a second half team.
First tournament win in 25 years. No happy tears tonight, but I will celebrate by allowing myself to sleep in 15 extra minutes in the morning before work. LETS GO JOHNNIES, TIME TO GO HUNT SOME FERAL HOGS
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u/sunburntredneck Alabama Crimson Tide • Texas Longhorns Mar 21 '25
We're a second half team
That's pretty much what every good college program across sports has said. Not the ones who are having just one breakout year, aka a lot of great athletes all lined up at once, but the ones that are set to be consistently good, by coaching & institutional greatness. Source: Bama fan
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u/unchartedscrub Mar 21 '25
Anyone clip the St. John’s playing finger gunning from the ground? Lol
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u/Tasty_Path_3470 St. John's Red Storm • Rutgers Scarlet Kn… Mar 21 '25
That would be Brady Dunlap, St. John’s best 3 point shooter, and kid who’s made it his personal mission to make his 3 point celebrations as obnoxious as possible after the RJ Luis tech for celebrating his 3 lmfao
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u/detblue524 Michigan Wolverines • St. John's Red Sto… Mar 21 '25
Let’s fucking go. I fuckin love this team
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u/shawn131871 Creighton Bluejays Mar 21 '25
Great job on making your first tournament appearance ever Uno. That in itself is a win for uno. Keep shining.
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u/MassiveResolution7 Arizona State Sun Devils Mar 21 '25
Rick Pitino vs Coach Cal. This will be the most highly anticipated Round of 32 Game this decade.
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u/__AJK__ Texas Longhorns Mar 21 '25
St. John's is such a great second half team. This was a 5 point game at halftime lol.
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u/GingerDevil04 Rutgers Scarlet Knights Mar 21 '25
I never thought I’d see St.John’s win a tournament game, this feels incredible
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u/RCPCHK St. John's Red Storm • Big East Mar 21 '25
Thank god the 2nd half Johnnies woke up. Those first 7 minutes in the first half were atrocious from them, laying bricks from 3 like it's a damn construction site. They've got to do much better in the first half, otherwise this team can get themselves in trouble again. Nonetheless, I'm finally happy to see my Johnnies win an NCAAT game in a long time. Omaha should still be proud of themselves for keeping it close for a while. If they weren't playing against the Red Storm, I would've happily rooted for them, cause they were a fun team to watch during their Summit League tournament run. On to Arkansas now in the 2nd round, and hopefully get off to a better start this time.
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u/DaoDeDickinson Gonzaga Bulldogs Mar 21 '25
Rooting for St. John's... they haven't been this good since they were a 2 seed knocked out by a 10 seed Gonzaga team in Mark Few's first season as head coach. Now they have to play as a 2 seed against... a 10 seed coached by John Calipari?!
I like Calipari maybe more than Pitino - either way still rooting for St. John's but the first champion I remember was Arkansas in '94.
I feel we put their program on tilt in 2000 with this game:
[for fans of Arizona and haters of the Big Ten, viewer discretion is advised]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny1aT9HxSz0
Somehow we won even though Calvary had 2 fouls before the game was 2 minutes in?
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u/Background-Pea4700 Ball State Cardinals • Michigan Sta… Mar 21 '25
Every trashcan within a 50 mile radius of Providence just breathed a sigh of relief
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u/Room480 Mar 21 '25
I’m 1-14. Fucking finally got my first win of the tourney lol.
And yes I deserve all the mocking and ridicule for thinking that out of all the years this year would be the year that two number one seeds would loose in the first round
Hopefully none of yall have the same final four as me cause if you do, prepare for them to loose based on my luck so far
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u/randrews202121 Notre Dame Fighting Irish • St. John's … Mar 21 '25
Wait what
Dude this is just being terrible at picking brackets what were you thinking
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u/Room480 Mar 21 '25
I wasn’t thinking that was the problem. I figured I normally go to chalk so figured this time I’d go with a lot of upsets and look how it turned out lol
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u/Meanteenbirder Vermont Catamounts • Sickos Mar 21 '25
And I felt bad just for picking Clemson to the Sweet 16 UC San Diego to win (so close!), as well as Kansas, VCU and Louisville.
At least my Drake pick stood.
Ironically, we get the most outstanding brackets after day 1 in a long time at like 30k
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u/TimmyTruckberg Omaha Mavericks Mar 21 '25
It's a long way from when we won single digit games, a few years back. I'm glad to have made such awesome progress, and I hope Crutch keeps it up
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u/BestMartinAlive St. John's Red Storm Mar 21 '25
Probably good for the game to be close the first 22 minutes.
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u/BradyHasHis6th UConn Huskies Mar 21 '25
The St. John’s experience
We’re in this game, man this team can’t shoot why are they ranked so high?
Oh shit they’re up 20 wait this was just tied wtf
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u/CrizzyBill Mar 21 '25
I was watching a bit of this at the bar.
Guy next to me: where's St. Johns?
Pretty sure it's NY.
Guy next to me: what about Omaha?
🤦🏼♂️ (We literally border Nebraska)
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