Syracuse Defeats St. John's: Quotent Quotables

There are really only a handful of teams they should play there. Even a game like Louisville or WV only draws a couple thousand at the Garden on a weeknight. Expand Carnasecca somehow and have an actual college basketball atmosphere. Have some weekend games against teams like Louisville, Georgetown and the like as well as any game against Syracuse, UConn and Duke at MSG, and have the rest in Queens. They play Cincy there on Wednesday, how many people do you think they’ll get? 3,000?

Attendance for Wvu/SJU at the garden: 6.000

Think they were happy to have Syracuse in the garden or what?

the more I just love that guy. Glad he’s ours. He even had Triche smiling after that last dunk.

When we go to the ACC, MSG might see if we want to play a few home games there a year.

Again, no surprise we were down 28 at one point but remove Fab Melo and one other starter and play us again and SJ would have been much much closer in the game because these kids do not quit.

I’m furious at the Orange fans. I get that you can root for your team no matter where they play. But to disrespect the St. John’s fans by doing their stupid standing (how original!) until Syracuse scores is not only disrespectful, but it’s downright inappropriate at an opposing team’s arena.

I’m furious at MSG for showcasing Syracuse stuff at their stores. Are we not the “home team?”

I’m furious at the classless Orange players for their acrobatic slam dunks when the game was clearly over.

I hope other schools don’t read this site, because it makes all of us look like a bunch of whiny girls

…..Too late.

When they’re ranked 4th and KU is ranked 8th?

Said in my best, “my child just stole the ball and is about the score on the wrong goal” voice.

If I must, I will write Doc Gross and recommend the use of pepper spray, rubber bullets, and razor wire.

…and it was as I expected. I’ve said it before and I will say it again – this is the best Cuse team I have ever seen. It’s a shame our rivalry is coming to an end – I expect next years game at the Dome will be the last regular season one between the two schools. As for the crowd, you guys had the edge, but not overwhelming. When your down by twenty, your fans don’t make a lot of noise. I expected that for a Saturday noon game on a Giants superbowl weekend when we had very little shot of doing anything. But again, Cuse looks very, very good. I think it’s you guys and the Wildcats. The ACC schools are overrated. Our five freshmen were within four of Duke with under a minute at Duke. I am not sure who will beat you the rest of the way in conference, but I am sure there will be one. The NCAA is all about match-ups but I would be shocked if you did not get far. Our Johnnies are on their way. With a few more bodies and Lavin on the bench next season, we’ll be back in the top half with this group. See you at the BET.

…which was a very moving point of the game. Evefry second half St. John’s honors a miliatry member and recites his or her accomplishments and put the individual up on Garden vision. A great ovation from the crowd for yesterday’s honoree. A nice Big East moment.

St. John’s has only won 2.

Whose gym is it?

…I would be trying to claim anywhere else too. I get it.

…just responding to the responses that were made after. Cuse by far was the better team, knew it would be. Definitely a Cuse crowd, but not the 80/20 that some on here are saying and not the 50/50 reported by some NYC outlets. Always liked the Cuse Johnnies rivalry, but it appears to be done once the acc move is made. You guys can call it your gym all you want, I get it. I get why you do it. Not a big deal. Was actually complimenting you guys, but it was taken the wrong way by some. Good luck the rest of the season.

…you need to find something to complain about in everything. You are voted number one, you complain that one idiot voted you number 2. You need to branch out and get some other hobbies. Take care boys.

And I suspect the G’town rivalry will end too. I never considered St. John’s a rival though. The BE non-basketball schools are furious with Pitt, Syracuse and W. Virginia and I expect them to mutually agree to not schedule any of those teams in the future.

The funny thing is fans of the non-basketball schools will never see why football teams had to leave a conference where basketball only schools dictate what happens in football. When schools like St. John’s teamed with Notre Dame to kill a billion dollar football TV deal, they essentially kicked those 3 teams out of the league. Oh well. I can see Syracuse setting up annual games at MSG.