{"id":178952,"date":"2026-03-29T16:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T16:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/178952\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T16:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T16:49:12","slug":"end-mightve-been-painful-but-this-is-just-the-beginning-for-st-johns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/178952\/","title":{"rendered":"End might&#8217;ve been painful, but this is just the beginning for St. John&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019re hurting today. <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/27\/sports\/zuby-ejiofor-breaks-down-after-st-johns-falls-in-sweet-16-to-duke\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">You\u2019re deeply sad<\/a>. You\u2019re in a Red Storm-induced fog.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re a St. John\u2019s fan who waited <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/27\/sports\/st-johns-falls-in-nail-biter-to-duke-in-sweet-16-heartbreaker\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">27 years to return to the Sweet 16<\/a>. You were so close to the Elite Eight, up 10 points on the overall No. 1 seed, ahead with just over four minutes remaining.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This will take a few days to get over, maybe even a few weeks. But embrace this feeling. Cherish it. It\u2019s new. It\u2019s what rooting for a quality program feels like.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Rick Pitino, March was fun because it came and went without angst. You knew St. John\u2019s wasn\u2019t going anywhere, so you could enjoy the Madness, follow your bracket selections and root for chaos.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You\u2019re hurting today. You\u2019re deeply sad. You\u2019re in a Red Storm-induced fog.\u00a0 You\u2019re a St. John\u2019s fan who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3361,63551,68679,9,56,63,65,64,3362,319,431,428,3363],"class_list":["post-178952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-college-basketball","tag-march-madness","tag-march-madness-2026","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-rick-pitino","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus","tag-st-johns-red-storm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}