{"id":51050,"date":"2025-11-24T23:42:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T23:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/51050\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T23:42:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T23:42:27","slug":"st-johns-hopes-early-lessons-help-them-ace-tough-las-vegas-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/51050\/","title":{"rendered":"St. John&#8217;s hopes early lessons help them ace tough Las Vegas tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS \u2014 Shortly after St. John\u2019s lost its first game of the season, more than two weeks ago at the Garden against Alabama, Rick Pitino felt it was a setback that <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/08\/sports\/this-st-johns-loss-is-exactly-what-rick-pitino-needs-for-the-long-term\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">would only help his team in time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/09\/sports\/the-lingering-st-johns-reminder-after-disappointing-alabama-loss\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">loss exposed shortcomings<\/a>, particularly on the perimeter, that had to be addressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe played these early games so we can find out where we need to get better,\u201d the Hall of Fame coach said then.<\/p>\n<p>This week in the Players Era Festival, we\u2019ll see how far the No. 14 Johnnies have come since that frustrating defeat to the No. 11 Crimson Tide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS \u2014 Shortly after St. John\u2019s lost its first game of the season, more than two weeks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3361,9,24,55,54,56,3362,319,428,3363,28468],"class_list":["post-51050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-college-basketball","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-rick-pitino","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-st-johns-red-storm","tag-zuby-ejiofor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51050","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=51050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}