On Saturday, St. John’s will play their last non-conference game of the season at MSG against the Pittsburgh Panthers.
The matchup will be the first time the Johnnies and Panthers face off since they competed in the Old Big East together up until 2013. Before Pitt went to the Atlantic Coast Conference (yes. Pittsburgh is near a coast... of three rivers), the Panthers were a tough, high-level Big East team.
Since then, they have struggled, pushing out a successful coach in Jamie Dixon for tw years of Kevin Stallings and four years of Jeff Capel, both of whom have made Pitt the DePaul of the ACC.