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January 26, 2007

Here’s something to ponder. The worst team for Pitt to play from a historical sense is St. John’s. Pitt has a career record of 16-33 against the Red Storm. That’s a paltry .327 winning percentage. Even with all the games and losses to Syracuse (34-61), that’s still a .358 winning percentage. In the last two years, in the midst of the St. John’s reduced scholarships, NCAA penalties and their struggles. They are still 2-1 against Pitt. I’m not sure why they play Pitt so well and Pitt plays so bad against them, but these are not games to enjoy watching.

Last year, St. John’s hit a hot streak in the middle of Big East Conference play — and Pitt was one of the victims — before they ran out of gas after a few games. They ended up going to Storrs and after keeping it close in the first half were blown out in the second half. Jeff Adrien for UConn was kicked out of the game and suspended a couple more for mixing it up with a St. John’s player.

It would appear that St. John’s is in another one of its hot streaks. Taking out Syracuse and ND. While the styles were slightly different in each game, the consistent thing was that St. John’s got out to a big lead in the first half and just held on for dear life.





Air Bud is true. Spoke to him after reading that post last night.

Comment by Scott 01.26.07 @ 2:11 pm

Last years loss to St Johns was horrible. We better no choke this year. Pitt better stomp StJohns.

Comment by Buzz 01.26.07 @ 3:58 pm

Many of the NY City players get to tense when we play St Johns. CK and Chris Taft both had that problem and played awful against the ST. Johns. I am hoping that these guys view this game the same as they would any big east game and forget that they are playing in NYC.

Comment by Tony in Harrisburg 01.26.07 @ 5:07 pm

I read somewhere a while ago that our New York players had a tendency to get nervous and play poorly in front of their families at Madison.

Conjecture I know, but there had to be some reason.

Comment by Ryan M 01.26.07 @ 5:15 pm

The game is in Pittsburgh.

Comment by Dave in Orlando 01.26.07 @ 6:34 pm

Then I guess we have nothing to worry about. 🙂

Comment by Ryan M 01.26.07 @ 7:20 pm

Nothing to worry about, just shoot 3’s as well as we did on Wednesday. 🙂

Comment by geeman2001 01.26.07 @ 8:13 pm

Sorry this is @ the Pete….Nevermind it’s over. We win by 15 to 20

Comment by Tony in Harrisburg 01.26.07 @ 9:15 pm

The game will be closer that we think, it is St Johns and we always have a tough time with them.

Comment by Buzz 01.27.07 @ 12:54 pm

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