Real St. John's fans are as hardened a group as you will find. The instances of devastation have become too numerous to count. I guarantee you this will not do any one of them in.

It is difficult to find a comparable of any recency to the level of opportunity presented to St. John’s with Thursday’s tilt with Baylor. It would not be hyperbole to describe a potential win as a seismic event for the position of the program.

First fair assessment of teams without leaning heavily on preseason predictives will be after Thanksgiving MTEs, but early returns may suggest the Big East’s “middle” may be less dense than a year ago.

The media lead-in today to St. John's first real test Sunday vs. New Mexico had me thinking about the rarity of November games at MSG since 2004 (Norm).

Will share my St. John's and Big East at-large perspectives on here, as it has become increasingly unfriendly to do so on the other platform in recent years. Welcoming of fair and honest interaction.