One younger St. John’s fan desires RJ Luis Jr. to know that she has his again.
The Purple Storm star was inundated with messages of negativity after his tough efficiency in No. 2 seeded St. John’s 75-66 loss to No. 10 Arkansas within the Spherical of 32 of the NCAA Event on Saturday, a lot in order that he needed to delete his Instagram account.
The response dissatisfied 12-year-old St. John’s fan Lily — higher often called “Mini Fan” to the St. John’s social media neighborhood, in keeping with her mother Brandy — and impressed her to indicate Luis some positivity.
“Mini Fan” created a do-it-yourself signal with a hand-drawn picture of Luis with the Large East event trophy with a heartwarming message.
“You’re Amazing RJ Luis,” the signal learn.
“You’re a great basketball player! Keep up the good work!” the message continued.
Lily was sporting a St John’s Large East event champions hoodie within the pic that was posted to social media by her mother, who tagged the Large East Participant of the 12 months within the submit.
“RJ is one of her favorite players and the idea that people would be so unkind to him [because] of one bad game … especially since he gave us so much to cheer for, was our mvp, player of the year, and led us to a [Big East] championship … was just really sad to her,” Brandy instructed The Submit in a message on X.
“She wanted RJ to know he is amazing and to hold his chin up.”
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“Mini Fan” and her household hail from Iowa and make the journey to New York after they can to catch St. John’s video games in individual on the Backyard.
Throughout their final journey to MSG, Purple Storm athletic director Ed Kull organized for the household to have the ability to meet one of many gamers, Brandy mentioned.
Luis shot simply 3-for-17 from the sphere within the season-ending loss to Arkansas and missed all three makes an attempt from 3-point vary.
He scored simply 9 factors and was benched by coach Rick Pitino in crunch time.
The response Luis acquired since Saturday’s second-round loss has saddened different St. John’s followers as effectively and a few have taken to social media to denounce the hate that the Purple Storm guard acquired.
That included WFAN host Brandon Tierney, who lamented the “sad state of where we are/who we’ve become” concerning the messages to Luis.
Following the loss, a heartbroken Luis instructed reporters, “I let my teammates down”
Luis joined St. John’s in 2023 as a switch from UMass and he does have yet one more yr left of eligibility, leaving the opportunity of him returning to Queens on the desk.
