In St. John's "news", Bleacher Report lists incoming junior wing Bashir Ahmed as the top JUCO transfer to watch in men's college basketball. He will definitely transform the Storm if he can efficiently make some of the slashing attempts and open jumpers that the team struggled to make last season.
Mike Rutherford at the SB Nation Mothership waxes poetic on the Big East being “here” (versus “on the rise”), with validation in the form of Villanova, while three other powers - Georgetown, Marquette and St. John's - need to rise. And then the power rankings leave St.