It can only go up from here for St. John’s, as last season was a rough start to the Chris Mullin era. Their mark of 8-24 on the season was their worst season since their back-to-back single digit win seasons at the tail end of the Mike Jarvis era and the start of the Norm Roberts era, where the Johnnies went 6-21 and 8-19, respectively.
If anything, last season was more about building from the ground up for the future. It was a massive reset on the part of the program to get back to the point of being consistently in contention and not just in contention every so often as was the case of the last few seasons.