St. John's Post Game Thread

[jojipoji]

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
What.

That was CRAZY. One of the best defensive performances I’ve seen.

Tarris Reed can do this any time he wants. 20 points, 11 rebounds, 6 blocks. Absolutely dominated the matchup with Zuby

Karaban missed a few threes trying to run it up at the end. But I thought he had a great game on both ends

Oziyah Sellers and Dillon Mitchell: 70 minutes, 4 points. Dwayne Koroma: 3 minutes, 4 points

THAT WAS FUN!!!!

complaining about Karaban missing a few threes. What is wrong with some of you.

 

[uconnbill]

Best game by Reed and set the table early on.

Love beating St. John's and Pitino

 

[Waquoit]

Last two games UConn stuffed the 2nd and 3rd best BE teams in their locker. The same locker.

 

[HCCForever]

Great dominating performance. Hartford sounded loud on the TV. Loved that slam by Mullins after steal by Silas

 

[Mr. French]

Defensive rotations, rebounding and intensity.

 

[Dove]

Can I have some more, please?

 

[HuskyHawk]

That was nuts. The best this team has executed on both sides of the ball all year. Reed’s help defense was vastly better than it has been. Defensive rebounding was much improved. The movement on offense was great except for that lull before the half. This was a glimpse of what this team can be.

 

[Robrio89]

What St John’s deserved for thinking they own the East

 

[FfldCntyFan]

I'm curious if Ruff has jumped on the UConn bandwagon?

 

[TRest]

Probably had our most dunks in a single game this year. Guys were after it.

 

[controlfade]

I'm curious if Ruff has jumped on the UConn bandwagon?

I asked th same ? in the chat 😂

 

[housekeys]

Props to both those teams for playing clean hard basketball the last 10 minutes.

By clean, you are referencing the cleaning of blood from the floor, I take it.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Here's a haiku
Reed reed reed reed reed
AK AK AK Reed
Solo Solo Reed

Good that it's not in the Haiku Thread, or I'd dock you for the extraneous/explanatory first line.

 

[HooperScooper]

given creighton is better than Providence wouldn’t UConn have tie breaker

Explained in this thread

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Thread 'Tiebreaker question'

Feb 23, 2026

If we beat St. John’s Wednesday, and end up finishing with the same record, who has the tiebreaker for the top seed in the big east?

• RayRay
• Replies: 22
• Forum: UConn Men's Basketball Forum

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[Sibeerian]

Watching Pitino fume about his team’s play was almost as much fun as watching our D.

Looking forward to the press conference!

 

[FearThePups]

Fanta is the best but babbled about the BE tiebreaker 10 times and told us nothing at all lol

Yeah, but he had a side splitting proclamation halfway through the 2nd half when he called it Rick Pitino’s nightmare.

 

[husky8273]

how was the crowd?

 

[Dove]

I almost feel sorry for SJU.

It's called a character flaw.

 

[Waquoit]

I feel for Stew.

Thanks for the earworm

 

[HuskyHawk]

Tonight was what we thought this team was capable of. It's hard to believe this is the same team that lost to Creighton.

Just an absolutely enjoyable game to watch. One that I might watch the replay all over again.

I was helping my parents move and missed the Creighton game. Only game I’ve missed all year. So you can blame that one on me.

 

[HuskyinWRNY]

Haven't been very confident lately. I feel pretty good tonight.

 

[aceboon]

I guess the Creighton loss was a necessary evil, if they manage to hang on and win that one I don't know if we see this uptick in intensity these past two games, especially with Tarris who looks like a new man. I was worried that AK might be cooked physically after that one and now he looks back to his old self, he was very good on both ends tonight.

 

[FearThePups]

I think this is what we were all expecting after the phenomenal start to the season. I am now convinced we can win it all with the foot on the gas for a full 40 minutes.

 

[Umami Zen]

X-Factor tonite -Koroma! Looked pretty smooth.

 

[Mister P]

Fanta is the best but babbled about the BE tiebreaker 10 times and told us nothing at all lol

His best line was one of his last of the telecast
“ Tonight was a Connecticut Clinic “

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

And that was separate from the 18-0 run! Wild.

Wasn't it 20-0?

I wanted another 30-0, like against Illinois, but 0-24 shooting more than suffices.

 

[GampelPBA]

Holy hell, thanks ranks up there with all-time Civic Center ass-whompings: https://www.courant.com/1984/02/13/whalers-drill-oilers-11-0-flood-record-books/

 

[CardiacAndre7]

Reed should be Big East DPOY and possibly Big East POTY

 

[superjohn]

So Zuby had a three pointer and a driving layup in the second half, those were St. John's only field goals of the half. They went 0-24 from the 17:28 mark to 0:00.

Never seen anything like it in high level basketball. We took their souls tonight.

 

[FightOnCT]

UConn basketball at its absolute finest. Reed excellent and team shifting into tourney gear. Love to see it.

St. John’s = NOT elite 😉