Damned in the event that they weren’t going to determine it out once more. Damned if St. John’s wasn’t going to search out one other approach to scramble again from a double-digit deficit, throw a blinding blanket of protection at one other opponent, discover a manner again to the bus with a win constructed on will and work ethic.
However right here they have been. Right here was Simeon Wilcher making a 3-pointer with lower than half a minute left within the sport. Right here was St. John’s, who’d been down 11, all of the sudden up one, 71-70, needing just one cease to win an eleventh sport in a row. And if there’s one staff in all of faculty basketball you be ok with getting a cease when it completely wants one, who’s that staff?
All season, it’s been St. John’s.
Besides now, the Villanova Wildcats, a determined staff available in the market for miracles to rescue their season, labored the ball round furiously. The seconds have been bleeding away. The Johnnies tried to get in entrance of the ball, couldn’t. The ball landed in Tyler Perkins’ palms, possibly 23 toes from the basket.