“In the last game [against DePaul] there were two different halves, quite frankly,” Chris Mullin said to the Big East media.
And he’s right. Except he also said that his “mind doesn’t go back that far” as two weeks ago, when DePaul throttled St. John’s in the second half.
If Mullin and his staff was looking back, they would see a disturbing trend of rough defensive second halves, one that doesn’t have an easy solution, outside of preserving the players’ foul trouble.
The Red Storm may make the NCAA Tournament without a win. Some outlets have the Johnnies safely in; others see a bubble profile.