Rick Pitino was right. The extra spotlight Saturday didn’t bother Kadary Richmond.
The extra spotlight Saturday didn’t bother Kadary Richmond, even as Seton Hall fans inside Prudential Center booed him every time he touched the ball against his former team.They tempted the stoic guard and dared him to lose his composure with a hostile backdrop that inevitably followed his decision to bolt to the Johnnies from the Pirates.Kadary Richmond, who had 12 points, six assists and five rebounds, goes up fro a layup as Emmanuel Okorafor defends during St.
So on a night bookmarked well ahead of time as Richmond’s return to face his former team, St. John’s turned the showdown into an all-around clinic.The Johnnies have strung together some of their best basketball of the season since the calendar flipped to 2025. Richmond converted a pair of early baskets to make it 11-1. St. John’s was efficient with its 3-pointers again — the latest step toward neutralizing a glaring early-season weakness.And its suffocating defense, which paired 12 steals with nine blocks and 19 forced turnovers, didn’t provide any room for the Pirates to generate a response en route to a 23-point halftime lead.
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