Second Half Collapse vs. Seton Hall Leaves St. John’s Searching For Answers

Torch Photo / Sara KiernanInsanity (noun): Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Albert Einstein’s famous definition of the term is the perfect way to describe the 2023-24 St. John’s men’s basketball team.

In their last four losses, head coach Rick Pitino and company led after the first half, just to falter in the second. Sunday night’s 68-62 loss to Seton Hall offered much of the same.

Dominating the opening stretch, St. John’s outclassed the visitors in every facet. They were visibly tougher than Seton Hall, driving Pirates’ head coach Shaheen Holloway to commit a technical foul late in the period. This incident sparked fires inside Al-Amir Dawes (19 pts.,…