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Even as the wins have piled up and sixth-ranked St. John\u2019s has carved out the school\u2019s best regular season in 25 years, Rick Pitino has maintained that his team can beat anybody, but also lose to anyone.<\/p>\n
A Big East regular-season title hasn\u2019t changed his mind. <\/p>\n
The Johnnies can go far in March, but they can also get picked off early, the Hall of Fame coach believes.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are a type of basketball team, we can definitely lose in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, and we can definitely go to a Final Four,\u201d Pitino said during an appearance on WFAN on Monday. \u201cWe beat Providence by two both times, and Providence is not lighting the league on fire. That\u2019s who we are: We are a gritty, hard-working team, and that\u2019s what it should be in Year 2. Year 2 should be, you turned it around. The start was the first year, you turned it around the second year, you made the tournament.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know who we are. If we don\u2019t just work every single possession, we can get beat, because it\u2019s proven out to be that way the whole season.\u201d<\/p>\n
St. John\u2019s (26-4, 17-2) hasn\u2019t lost at full strength since New Year\u2019s Eve, and has won 15 of its last 16 games.<\/p>\n
The Johnnies clinched an outright Big East crown on Saturday, the program\u2019s first since 1985, and will be the No. 1 seed in the Big East Tournament.<\/p>\n
They will have had a full week off before visiting No. 20 Marquette, and then five more days off before the conference tournament opener. <\/p>\n
With several players dealing with injuries, from Kadary Richmond (both groins) to Aaron Scott (hamstring) the break comes at a good time.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the things that people don\u2019t realize, we\u2019ve had major injuries and have not faltered,\u201d the St. John\u2019s coach said. \u201cDeivon [Smith] missed quite a few games, Kadary\u2019s missed quite a few practices, Aaron\u2019s missed time, RJ [Luis Jr.] has missed time, and they still won. To me, that speaks volumes about what the players are about.\u201d<\/p>\n
Throughout this season, Pitino has offered high praise for last year\u2019s team. <\/p>\n
That continued during his interview on Monday. <\/p>\n
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His first team at St. John\u2019s struggled most of the season, but hit its stride late, winning six straight games before a Big East Tournament semifinal loss to eventual national champion Connecticut. <\/p>\n
He isn\u2019t sure which team is better at this point in the year.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you took last year\u2019s team at this time of year versus this team, I don\u2019t know who would win. I really don\u2019t,\u201d Pitino said. \u201cNow 80 percent of the season, this team has been much better. But at the end of last season, where we lost 95-90 in the Big East Tournament to Connecticut, who went on a rampage and killed everyone it played, we were really, really good the last [six] games of the last season.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt would\u2019ve been a helluva game, because offensively Daniss Jenkins and Jordan Dingle were playing great, [Chris] Ledlum was picking it up, Joel [Soriano] was Joel. We were pretty damn good at the end of the year, it\u2019s just that we were not good at all at the beginning of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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