Top 25 And 1: UConn rises after Huskies rout St. John’s on Wednesday

UConn is alone atop the Big East standings once more. Did you see how the Huskies obtained there? They did it by embarrassing St. John’sending the Red Storm’s 13-game successful streak and ruining Tuesday’s Game of the Night.

Final rating: UConn 72, St. John’s 40.

The Red Storm had been restricted to simply 11 discipline objectives in 40 minutes after going on a 0-for-12 stretch within the first half after which lacking their last 24 — 24! — discipline purpose makes an attempt of the sport. They shot simply 19.6% from the sphere.

“Give [UConn] all the credit,” mentioned St. John’s coach Rick Pitino. (*25*)

With the win, UConn improved to 26-3 total, 16-2 within the Big East. St. John’s is 22-6 total, 15-2 within the Big East. Both groups might be favored in each remaining regular-season sport. So them being co-champs with 18-2 league marks stays a chance due to Tuesday’s consequence. Had the sport gone the opposite means, although, the Red Storm would’ve had a two-game lead within the loss column of the league standings and a robust grip on the outright Big East title.

So that was large from UConn.

It was a dominant victory — one so dominant Pitino figured he’d solely been on the fallacious aspect of a type of only one different time in his head-coaching profession that began at Boston University in 1978. The win pushed UConn as much as No. 10 within the NET, to No. 9 at KenPom.com, to No. 8 at BartTorvik.com and to No. 6 in Thursday morning’s up to date CBS Sports Top 25 And 1 day by day faculty basketball rankings, which induced Houston, Purdue and Nebraska to be pushed down one spot every within the Top 25 And 1, no fault of their very own.

St. John’s is now No. 18.

Barring an enormous shock, the Huskies and Red Storm would be the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds within the Big East Tournament. That means, in the event that they meet once more, the following time might be March 14 within the title sport of that occasion at New York’s Madison Square Garden.

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