{"id":309552,"date":"2025-10-17T01:59:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/309552\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T01:59:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:59:14","slug":"st-johns-is-aiming-for-absolute-bliss-and-theyre-not-shy-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/309552\/","title":{"rendered":"St. John&#8217;s is aiming for absolute bliss &#8212; and they&#8217;re not shy about it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. John\u2019s isn\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/13\/sports\/st-johns-gets-highest-preseason-poll-ranking-in-program-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shying away from the hype<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, they are leaning into it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe talk about it for sure, that\u2019s definitely the goal to make it to the last weekend in March or April,\u201d newcomer Bryce Hopkins said during the school\u2019s media day on Thursday inside Carnesecca Arena. \u201cPlaying for the Final Four and national championship, that\u2019s definitely our goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have the pieces to do it. I think we have the depth to do it. We\u2019re unselfish, we\u2019re a great group of guys that are playing for the right reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. John\u2019s isn\u2019t shying away from the hype. In fact, they are leaning into it. \u201cWe talk about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":309553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,2076,1317,1337,1338,30692,62,2225,1378,67,132,68,51599],"class_list":{"0":"post-309552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-basketball","12":"tag-ncaabasketball","13":"tag-rick-pitino","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-plus","16":"tag-st-johns-red-storm","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-zuby-ejiofor"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115387037413689809","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}