St. John’s fell to UConn last night in a game that, at a different part of the season, could be seen with a glass-half-full perspective.
Maybe it still can be seen that way, despite some frustration from fans about how the game went, the errors and miscues that were the difference in the final outcome. Those errors and miscues loom large as moments, but the fact that the Red Storm managed to fight without folding and push the game into overtime has some “glass half full merit.”
But with a weaker non-conference schedule and weak margins of victory against lower-rated teams in the early part of the season, the critical numbers that help determine NCAA participation are far from where they need to be for an at-large bid.