Go Butler

[tower912]

Just sayin'

[HutchwasClutch]

Just sayin'

Yes, St. John's is clearly a more dangerous team.  Butler is arguably the least talented team in the conference IMO.

[mugrad_89]

It really shouldn't matter who wins that game.

[BM1090]

I'd prefer to play Butler but don't care much. We should handle either team.

[GoldenEagles03]

St. John's lead Marquette by 7 at halftime in New York and played their best offensive game of the season today.

Neither was good enough to beat Marquette.  I'm ok with either opponent.

[1SE]

These are all the right responses - we're going to have to face teams much better than SJU and Butler to cut down the nets at MSG and Houston.

But COLE gonna COLE.

[The Lens]

F*ck em. 

Who ever they bring out is gonna lose. 

We're doing things.

[WarriorFan]

Opponent no matta
MU can beat either one.
Again.

As for St. Johns - with any normal officiating crew, 5 of them would have fouled out before the 12 minute TO in the 2nd half.

[Silent Verbal]

In today's game, St. John's hit a 70-foot three pointer to end the first half, another three where the guy was fading away out of bounds after just stealing the ball, and one more where the guy was in the air bobbling the ball and ended up tossing it in the general direction of the hoop, which resulted in a four point play.

I agree that St. John's is more dangerous than Butler, but they got 10 points today by sheer luck.  That's quite a lot.

[Viper]

I absolutely do not want to face StJ's. IMO, Marquette can have a bad game, i.e. foul trouble, shooting, whatever, and beat Butler. StJ's does have talent. I'd prefer the Warriors avoid the Redmen on their court in the BET.

[Newsdreams]

Either one is going to be tough, would have to beat them 3 times...

[BLWarrior91]

The only scary thing about St. John's is the MSG crowd supporting them.  We should have a better crowd advantage against Butler.

[4everwarriors]

Ya ain't doin' chit in da Tourney if St. John's gives ya hives.
Kolek 'em wit no finish line, hey?

[MU82]

I still remember the consternation on Scoop when we had to face St. John's in our BET opener in 2019. Several Scoopers "guaranteed" we'd lose. I even won a couple bets after Marquette won by 100 points. And that was a much better St. John's team, as well as a fading, poorly coached Marquette team.

I know that fretting about games against cruddy opponents is part of what fans do -- we've seen it here this season going into games against DePaul, Butler, Georgetown, St. John's, Georgia Tech and even effen Radford -- but I have absolutely no concern about facing St. John's on Thursday. Or Butler, obviously. They really suck.

[mugrad_89]

I still remember the consternation on Scoop when we had to face St. John's in our BET opener in 2019. Several Scoopers "guaranteed" we'd lose. I even won a couple bets after Marquette won by 100 points. And that was a much better St. John's team, as well as a fading, poorly coached Marquette team.

I know that fretting about games against cruddy opponents is part of what fans do -- we've seen it here this season going into games against DePaul, Butler, Georgetown, St. John's, Georgia Tech and even effen Radford -- but I have absolutely no concern about facing St. John's on Thursday. Or Butler, obviously. They really suck.

St John's was pulling shots out of their asses yesterday to make the end close.  The chances of that happening again are nil.

[PointWarrior]

Bring on either Butler or the Johnnies - Marquette will be either by 15

[79Warrior]

The only scary thing about St. John's is the MSG crowd supporting them.  We should have a better crowd advantage against Butler.

If we can't beat SJU then forget about a UConn matchup. They are playing terrific and will have more fans there than SJU any day of the week.

[withoutbias]

I still remember the consternation on Scoop when we had to face St. John's in our BET opener in 2019. Several Scoopers "guaranteed" we'd lose. I even won a couple bets after Marquette won by 100 points. And that was a much better St. John's team, as well as a fading, poorly coached Marquette team.

I know that fretting about games against cruddy opponents is part of what fans do -- we've seen it here this season going into games against DePaul, Butler, Georgetown, St. John's, Georgia Tech and even effen Radford -- but I have absolutely no concern about facing St. John's on Thursday. Or Butler, obviously. They really suck.

Weren't you championing the "What Marquette teams have done in the past has nothing to do with what they'll do this year" train going into the at Butler game? Now you're bringing up past MU/SJU BET games to determine what's going to happen in the matchup this year?

[Scoop Snoop]

St John's was pulling shots out of their asses yesterday to make the end close.  The chances of that happening again are nil.

Yep. And 10/20 on three pointers. What are the chances they can do that again at MSG? Pretty sure they did not average 50% this season. Also 89% FT shooting.

I had a strange feeling that the miracle 3 at the end of the first half would come back to haunt us, and it nearly did. Anyone think they can do that again?

The only thing working against us-and it may be huge in a close game- is SJ being the home team on the court.

[The Sultan]

Again, SJU only played 4 games at MSG - and went 2-2. It's barely a home court.

[Scoop Snoop]

Again, SJU only played 4 games at MSG - and went 2-2. It's barely a home court.

Thanks. Did not know that (another way of saying I did not read all the threads here).

We'll be fine. Let's stop obsessing over an anomaly.

[cheebs09]

Again, SJU only played 4 games at MSG - and went 2-2. It's barely a home court.

I think there's going to be WAY more UCONN fans there than St John's. Honestly, there may be more MU fans.

[Scoop Snoop]

I think there's going to be WAY more UCONN fans there than St John's. Honestly, there may be more MU fans.

Yep. Expect 3,000-4,000 Dan Hurley clones, aka UCONN fans.

[MU82]

Weren't you championing the "What Marquette teams have done in the past has nothing to do with what they'll do this year" train going into the at Butler game? Now you're bringing up past MU/SJU BET games to determine what's going to happen in the matchup this year?

I was talking about Scooper angst, that's all. I've been saying all along that Marquette's gonna romp on Thursday against the Johnnies-Bulldogs winner -- and yes, that has nothing to do with anything that happened in the past.

[wadesworld]

And if you're a UCONN fan you root for the 8 seed over the 1 seed.

But if we can't beat SJU, we're in trouble.