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Are Big East teams feasting on the St. John’s defense?

Something you may have missed in Monday night’s blowout loss to the Georgetown Hoyas:

That game was the St. John’s Red Storm’s BEST defensive performance in Big East play.

Measured by points per possession - which describes scoring efficiency in a way that can be better compared across games - the Johnnies were actually a notch better than their performance against Butler, but played a faster game.

After noting that DePaul scored their highest point total in conference play, I went to a table to see what the difference was between opponents’ points scored per 100 possessions in conference games vs.