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Category: BIG EAST PRESS
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Our First Weekly Big East Conference column of the 2025-26 season.
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Photo Credit: St. John’s Athletics Full Circle Moments are a thing in sports and during St. John’s memorable run to the Big East tournament championship this season it’s quite known that Grad Transfer guard Kadary Richmond was about to do something that doesn’t happen often in NYC. Six Years ago, Richmond was on the rise…
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Words like First place and nationally ranked are something we haven’t heard when it comes to the St. Johns Red Storm in the past couple of years but in 2024-25 they have become the norm. It speaks to the growth of the program since the hiring of Rick Pitino two seasons ago. On Saturday, January…
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When you don’t get chosen to play in the Big Dance there are only three things you can do at the point. You can either raise hell on social media or you can take the snub on the chin but make everyone pay by going on a revenge tour. This is what led to Seton…
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The Seton Hall Pirates opened up the season against Saint Peter’s and it was a huge wake-up call for the Pirates as a slow start had them in a tug-of-war against a young athletic Peacocks team for a majority of the game. “We were playing selfish. No one was playing team basketball we were playing…
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The Dog days of college Basketball are something else. You hit a stretch of bad losses, you are in a slump and fans want the head coaches bags packed the next morning. Tough times happen but like they say life is 90 % of what happens to you and 10 % of how you respond…
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St. John’s Red Storm have been slowly improving and they get a chance to boost their tournament resume with four Quad 1 opportunities starting tonight in Omaha against Creighton
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You always learn how great a team is in college basketball when you witness how they handle adversity and bounce back on the road.If you have been watching the Seton Hall Pirates lately, then you know this team is for real. If not then there’s a chance that you are late to the party The…
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Seton Hall Pirates Conference play has finally arrived and the Seton Hall Pirates are ready to prove why they are the preseason favorite to win the league: The Pirates started the season hot, dominating their weaker opponents to start the non-conference season, but when ever they faced a higher ranked opponent they continuously fought hard…
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Photo Credit: Noah K. Murray/USA Today Sports From February 17th to March 9th, The Villanova Wildcats went 3-3 to finish the regular season. Given how dominant they have been in the conference since the league’s reconfiguration in 2014, most people would have thought that the Wildcats were not capable of repeating as tournament champs. This…
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