I know this is rarely used in basketball, but you could make total points be the tiebreaker. If the teams win by the same margin, the year is tied, and the previous winner keeps it.
Yeh, St. John's got schooled by a better team...will be interesting to see them play again in the Big East tourney...wonder what apologies Roger Rubin and Newsday will have for the Johnnies.dutchPride86 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 25, 2026 8:32 pm Speedy should make the team watch the start of Uconn St John's tonight... Hurley got uconn playing with their hair on fire to avenge the loss at MSG. Of course playing in front of 16,000 raucous fans helps. Hope its a good atmosphere Saturday!
I expected UConn to win the rematch at home but I was absolutely shocked to see what St. John's scored (only 40 pts!) and shot (just 20%!) after scoring 81 pts in their nine-points win over UConn at MSG.dutchPride86 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 25, 2026 8:32 pm Speedy should make the team watch the start of Uconn St John's tonight... Hurley got uconn playing with their hair on fire to avenge the loss at MSG.
Lol Newsday gave them a few pages including the entire back page in a 30+ point loss. Disgusting!HUSID74 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 26, 2026 10:04 amYeh, St. John's got schooled by a better team...will be interesting to see them play again in the Big East tourney...wonder what apologies Roger Rubin and Newsday will have for the Johnnies.dutchPride86 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 25, 2026 8:32 pm Speedy should make the team watch the start of Uconn St John's tonight... Hurley got uconn playing with their hair on fire to avenge the loss at MSG. Of course playing in front of 16,000 raucous fans helps. Hope its a good atmosphere Saturday!
UConn scored 72 points in both SJU games. The first won they lost, 72-81; the second one they won, 72-40. Time for SJU to look for a new coach!
I think more than anything UCONN just played with a mindset of this is our conference and if you (St Johns) think you arrived by beating us last time think again. When doubt crept in for St John's UCONN smelled blood and went for the kill. And that's the EXACT mentality Hofstra needs to have Saturday. Instead of looking down at Stony Brook, like Speedy did with his dismissive "this was their Super Bowl" comment after losing at Stony last month, Hofstra needs to come out thinking time to shut Stony Brook up and put them back in their place.Wags wrote: ↑Thu Feb 26, 2026 12:04 pmI expected UConn to win the rematch at home but I was absolutely shocked to see what St. John's scored (only 40 pts!) and shot (just 20%!) after scoring 81 pts in their nine-points win over UConn at MSG.dutchPride86 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 25, 2026 8:32 pm Speedy should make the team watch the start of Uconn St John's tonight... Hurley got uconn playing with their hair on fire to avenge the loss at MSG.
Shows how important playing intense, focused, committed defense is and how teams can inexplicably turn that on and off. Obviously, different matchups can change things even with a good defensive effort, but sometimes the same effort just isn't there with a lot of teams, and that's inexcusable. I said what I did about coaching in another thread with Coen and Northeastern this year, and that it's mainly about the players, but this is where coaching is a big factor - with accountability. No doubt, Hurley made his players accountable before last night with the way they came out and defended.
Sometimes shots fall, sometimes not, but defensive effort, intensity, communication, and commitment to the defensive gameplan should always remain a constant, especially when your offense is struggling.
Or maybe because they're simply pretty good (9-6 in the conference and 8-2 in their last 10, were up huge at halftime on UNCW, though they lost, beat Charleston in 20T in the highest-scoring game in CAA history) and because it's Hofstra, their Loong Island rival, who they want to get up for regardless of what Hofstra says or does. Maybe we're reading too much into the "Super Bowl" comment, the t-shirts, the Pride of Long Island motto, or any of those things that we assume Stony Brook is paying close attention to which they may not even really notice or easily shrug off?
The kid should be suspended, it was blatant...and all through the telecast they were talking about him as POY, never a mention of CRUZ or Hofstra for that matter. Guess they forgot that we beat them twice!dutchPride86 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 26, 2026 9:50 pm Stony Brook's best player and possible CAA 1st-teamer Erik Pratt just got tossed late in Stony's loss to Monmouth tonight for spitting at a fan (nice job by Monmouth camera crew pretty indisputable video). Fan was really jawing at him but Pratt obviously can't do that. I dunno if CAA would suspend him for that but thought worth noting. NFL did suspend DK Metcalf 2 games for spitting at a fan
Whatever the reason (they weren't good last year, but neither was hofstra), they better not be surprised by Stony Brook coming out with intensity from the start like they have been the last few meetings.Wags wrote: ↑Thu Feb 26, 2026 7:06 pmOr maybe because they're simply pretty good (9-6 in the conference and 8-2 in their last 10, were up huge at halftime on UNCW, though they lost, beat Charleston in 20T in the highest-scoring game in CAA history) and because it's Hofstra, their Loong Island rival, who they want to get up for regardless of what Hofstra says or does. Maybe we're reading too much into the "Super Bowl" comment, the t-shirts, the Pride of Long Island motto, or any of those things that we assume Stony Brook is paying close attention to which they may not even really notice or easily shrug off?
Last year is apples and oranges. They were an entirely different team with different key players than this year. And although Hofstra has some key holdovers, they're very different too.cactus wrote: ↑Fri Feb 27, 2026 12:32 pmWhatever the reason (they weren't good last year, but neither was hofstra), they better not be surprised by Stony Brook coming out with intensity from the start like they have been the last few meetings.Wags wrote: ↑Thu Feb 26, 2026 7:06 pmOr maybe because they're simply pretty good (9-6 in the conference and 8-2 in their last 10, were up huge at halftime on UNCW, though they lost, beat Charleston in 20T in the highest-scoring game in CAA history) and because it's Hofstra, their Loong Island rival, who they want to get up for regardless of what Hofstra says or does. Maybe we're reading too much into the "Super Bowl" comment, the t-shirts, the Pride of Long Island motto, or any of those things that we assume Stony Brook is paying close attention to which they may not even really notice or easily shrug off?
