{"id":547382,"date":"2026-03-18T01:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T01:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/547382\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T01:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T01:46:07","slug":"disrespected-st-johns-has-all-the-motivation-needed-for-march-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/547382\/","title":{"rendered":"Disrespected St. John&#8217;s has all the motivation needed for March run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first snub came Sunday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The next, Tuesday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If Rick Pitino and St. John\u2019s needed any motivation, if the Big East\u2019s first back-to-back outright regular-season and tournament champions had to look for extra ammunition, the selection committee and Associated Press voters gave it to them in spades.<\/p>\n<p>The team that beat Connecticut twice, that has won 19 of its past 20 games, that has dropped just one game since Jan. 3<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/16\/sports\/schein-time-st-johns-got-screwed-by-ncaa-tournament-committee\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">, was sent packing to San Diego, given a No. 5 seed<\/a> in the East Region. The selection committee listed them No. 18 on its overall seed list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first snub came Sunday night.\u00a0 The next, Tuesday afternoon.\u00a0 If Rick Pitino and St. John\u2019s needed any&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,724,153046,270928,85,2136,735,738,739],"class_list":["post-547382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-college-basketball","tag-march-madness","tag-march-madness-2026","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus","tag-st-johns-red-storm","tag-zuby-ejiofor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}