The Red Storm have made a push to the Big Dance thanks to senior and transfer leaders.
Around the time the St. John’s women’s basketball team lost to Villanova and Marquette by a combined 39 points in February, head coach Joe Tartamella had a question for Kadaja Bailey.Momentum from the Red Storm’s 13-0 start, which allowed them to temporarily tack a top-25 ranking next to their name, had started to slip away.Her response materialized across the Red Storm’s next game, a, which directly led to St. John’s clinching its first NCAA Tournament berth since 2015-16.
“It was the last chance for [Bailey] to really show she could be a winner,” Tartamella said, “and I think she did that. … I don’t know if we’ll see another one like her in the way that the landscape is now, but just for someone who’s been loyal, someone who’s grown up here, someone who’s matured tremendously here, it’s exciting to see her have this chance to be out there [in the NCAA Tournament] as her final chapter.
Jayla Everett is one of the Red Storm’s “three home runs” that transferred to St. John’s this season.“Obviously, you always dream about making the tournament, seeing your name across the screen, and that’s been the main thing for us this year,” graduate-student forward Danielle Patterson said. “That’s what we’ve been saying around the locker room, just keeping the main thing the main thing.”
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