""We learned how to stay together early on in the year when we were taking losses and figuring out what we've got to do to stay together," Dillon Mitchell said. "Now, when we have times during the games where we're down or we're not playing our best, we stay together and we go out there and fight together. But it's all from the beginning of the year and how those experiences have helped us.""
""When you compete against great competition, you find out what's lacking and you find out what you did well," Pitino said Friday before the team practice at the Garden. "So when you play against . . . those type of teams [we played""
St. John's has a 12-game winning streak and a 21-5 overall record (14-1 Big East) after beating Marquette in Milwaukee and overtaking Connecticut atop the conference standings following Connecticut's loss to Creighton. Ian Jackson returned from a first-half ankle sprain, despite wearing a walking boot and being ruled out for the upcoming Garden matchup with Creighton, and played 13 more minutes. The team rallied from a seven-point second-half deficit and withstood a late Marquette push. Toughness and poise have increased after early-season losses to Alabama, Iowa State, Auburn and Kentucky and a fall from a preseason No. 5 ranking.
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