If St. John's only loses 2 more games before the tournament and ends with a record of 19-15, with wins over 2 top 5 teams, they may actually make it in the NCAA tourney bc of those strength of victories.
2 things to take away from this:
1) UD needs the A-10 to be vastly improved to allow for some losses to be offset by beating top 25-50 teams in conference OR schedule tougher OOC (see early season tournament next season)
2) I don't agree with Lunardi often, but I'm completely on board with his belief that all at-large teams MUST be AT LEAST .500 in conference to be eligible for the NCAA tournament. Those under.500 teams should go to NIT
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