(11-05-2015 02:32 PM)JHG722 Wrote:  

(11-04-2015 10:22 PM)stever20 Wrote:  Um, can I bury now?

It's gonna be a long year for St John's. But, I think long term, St John's is on a upswing that we've not seen for 20+ years quite frankly. I think the team I compare to is Temple. 2 years ago they were awful. didn't even win 10 games. But last year they made the NIT finals, and really should have made the NCAA tourney. It can rebound in a hurry.

We lost to Texas, #9 Villanova, UConn x2, Louisville x2, SMU x2, Memphis x2, and Cincy x2. All ranked or ranked the next time we played them. We also only had 7 scholarship players for 2/3 of the season.

St. John's would be lucky to win 8 games, and the conference schedule is nowhere near as tough as ours was.

Sorry- but Villanova, Georgetown, Butler, Xavier all really good- and then the depth of the conference much better than AAC was 2 years ago. There aren't any Rutgers, UCF, USF, or Houston's on the schedule.

Also- Temple lost to:
Kent St
Towson
Texas Southern
Rutgers
UCF x2
La Salle
Houston x2

Temple had a good schedule, #35. St John's will be around that number as well...

It's totally a valid comparison.