St. John's basketball guard Posh Alexander (Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports)
St. John’s basketball has NCAA Tournament dreams crushed by Seton Hall.
The NCAA Tournament hopes of both the St. John’s basketball program and the Seton Hall Pirates rested on the Thursday matinee in Manhattan.
St. John’s earned a first round bye into the Big East Tournament quarterfinals and had its highest seed, No. 4, since it took the title at Madison Square Garden back in 2000.
Everything seemed to be falling the Johnnies’ way until moments before tipoff.
It had Big East Freshman of the Year Posh Alexander back, bubble teams were losing, No.