St. John’s basketball jumped to No. 7 within the Related Press top-25 ballot, marking the best the Pink Storm have been within the ballot in 33 years and even longer since they’ve been ranked this excessive this late within the season.
The bounce comes after the Pink Storm’s massive win over DePaul and an announcement win over UConn final week.
At 15-2 in Massive East play, St. John’s has matched the quantity of wins it had in 1984-85, when it went on to win the league outright and made the NCAA match.
The six-week run within the nationwide ballot is this system’s longest because it spend 16 weeks being ranked in 1998-99, reaching as excessive as No. 8.
The Pink Storm has now attained the No. 7 spot for the primary time because the early weeks of the 1991-92 season – the identical 12 months they received a share of the Massive East season title.
Much more notable is the truth that the Johnnies haven’t been ranked this excessive on March 1 since 1986 when Walter Berry and Mark Jackson led the Pink Storm to a Massive East Match title.
And in this system’s historical past courting again to 1907, St. John’s ranked inside the highest 10 in March simply six occasions beforehand.
