The traps don’t get much bigger than this for the St. John’s basketball team.
A seven-game winning streak, a weekend idle from games, and a sold-out Madison Square Garden with the No. 3 UConn Huskies looming on Friday night.
All that stands in the way of the No. 22 Red Storm (16-5, 9-1 Big East) and the biggest game of the year in the Big East is a trip to Chicago for a date with the DePaul Blue Demons (12-10, 4-7 Big East) on Tuesday night (8:00 p.m. ET, Peacock).
But the speedbump for the Johnnies is that this isn’t the DePaul of year’s past.