It was a roller coaster of a trip to Las Vegas for St. John\u2019s in the Players Era Festival.<\/p>\n
The 14th-ranked Johnnies played their best game of the young season<\/a> (a commanding win over Baylor), their worst game<\/a> (blowing an 11-point second-half lead to No. 21 Auburn) and suffered a heartbreaking defeat in the final seconds<\/a> to No. 15 Iowa State.<\/p>\n St. John\u2019s now has nine days off before returning to the Garden to face Ole Miss \u2014 and plenty to think about.<\/p>\n Here we break down what we learned from these three games:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a roller coaster of a trip to Las Vegas for St. John\u2019s in the Players Era…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3361,30243,30244,30245,30246,9,56,63,65,64,4780,319,428,3363,28468],"class_list":["post-55463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-college-basketball","tag-dylan-darling","tag-ian-jackson","tag-inside-st-johns","tag-joson-sanon","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-post-sports-newsletters","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\/55463","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=55463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}