When the St. John’s basketball team heads to Las Vegas, the opponents will be fairly unfamiliar.
The Johnnies did play Baylor last season in the Baha Mar Hoops Challenge – a game many people with the Red Storm are hoping to forget – and both rosters are very different from a season ago.
Its last matchup against Iowa State was three seasons ago and during the previous coaching regime, which is basically a lifetime in college sports.
However, one St. John’s player is quite familiar with the Cyclones and Bears – and the overall schemes of Big 12 basketball – and that’s Dillon Mitchell, who has played in the conference for all three of his prior college seasons.