Again, Walter Clayton has free will. He can choose where he wants to transfer to. Rick cant tie him up and take him with him, or force him to stay at iona.
The kid is from florida and transferred to the university of florida. Not exactly ground breaking stuff here.
And yea cal does own RP. But that had nothing to do with st johns shooting like 2-22 from 3 and 8-27 in the paint. The Arkansas defense did though, they have song long athletic dudes who played well defensively. But st johns also missed open shots they usually make. Aka bad shooting night. I mean how man games in his career has rj luis went 3-17 in. Dude is a scorer, all 3 levels. Just went ice cold.
It happens.
One year you lose to Morehead State after making the Big East title.
The Next year you make a legendary Final Four run.
Then finally you cap it off being the #1 overall seed and national champions the year after that.
One year Coach K, the greatest maybe ever, loses to a 14 seed Mercer
The next year he wins his 5th national championship
That's why you can't just look fully at March for the health of a program or success of a coach. Good teams and talent facing off on neutral courts playing a lot of games in a short time span, anything can happen.
Dean Smith's first 32 years at UNC he only had 1 title on a Michael Jordan buzzer beater. Got his 2nd and final one in year 33.
Bill Self only has 2 titles, but until this year he had like 20+ straight years where his team was a 1,2,3,or 4 seed every single year. Won a record amount of Big 12 titles in a row in a tough Big 12, but some judge him on some one game scenario losses. But when it's all said and done, Bill Self will go down as one the best to ever coach. He's ONLY 62. He averages around 30 wins a year and say he coaches another decade? That's 1,136 wins by age 72 and that's only 66 wins behind Coach K.
