For stretches last season, St. John’s was easily one of the best bad teams in the country, and that’s actually not a contradicting statement.
They hung with the best, lost close games to good teams, and yet folded to some of the worst. It was a year of head-scratching inconsistency as Chris Mullin’s second-year team struggled to find its identity. To understand just how bad they often were, you have to understand how good they proved they could be at times.
When they were good, they were very good
Atop the list of impressive outings for the Red Storm was the utter annihilation of longtime rival Syracuse—a 93-60 rout at the Carrier Dome.