Yesterday, the St. John’s Red Storm played a closed scrimmage against the University of Rhode Island, a squad that went to last year’s NCAA Tournament, but lost a number of contributors to the team — and return three regulars.
The scrimmage, a way to measure how the Johnnies are coming together with their new additions, was covered by Zach Braziller, who was kind enough to feed a box score to amp the anxieties of the fans...
...because the Red Storm lost the scrimmage.
It’s a scrimmage, so DO NOT PANIC.
It’s a game with extra fouls (you’ll see a few players ended with six); there were, strangely, four technical fouls (really?