{"id":548658,"date":"2026-03-27T15:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T15:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/548658\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T15:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T15:21:08","slug":"this-st-johns-season-is-already-a-success-what-comes-next-is-gravy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/548658\/","title":{"rendered":"This St. John&#8217;s season is already a success \u2014 what comes next is gravy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The pressure is off. The expectations have been reached.<\/p>\n<p>Win or lose Friday night at Capital One Arena, this St. John\u2019s season will go down as the best this century \u2014 yes, even better than last year\u2019s history-making, 31-win campaign.<\/p>\n<p>It is already a rousing success, the school\u2019s first trip to the Sweet 16 since 1999 on the heels of Big East regular-season and postseason titles.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, you won\u2019t hear coach Rick Pitino, any of his assistant coaches or players say that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 The pressure is off. The expectations have been reached. Win or lose Friday night at Capital&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[46750,4044,53629,158353,120019,229929,4892,14601,99,358,14602,14603],"class_list":["post-548658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bryce-hopkins","tag-college-basketball","tag-dylan-darling","tag-inside-st-johns","tag-joson-sanon","tag-march-madness-2026","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-rick-pitino","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-st-johns-red-storm","tag-zuby-ejiofor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}