{"id":66381,"date":"2026-02-14T17:57:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T22:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/six-ejected-after-fight-forces-20-minute-delay-in-st-johns-providence-basketball-game\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T17:57:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T22:57:23","slug":"six-ejected-after-fight-forces-20-minute-delay-in-st-johns-providence-basketball-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/six-ejected-after-fight-forces-20-minute-delay-in-st-johns-providence-basketball-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Six ejected after fight forces 20-minute delay in St John\u2019s-Providence basketball game"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Police enter court amid fracas sparked by hard foul<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Coach Rick Pitino holds back players as tempers flare<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Six players were ejected from Saturday\u2019s college basketball game between No. 17 St John\u2019s and Providence after a fracas resulting from a hard foul by Friars forward Duncan Powell on Bryce Hopkins sent the Red Storm star crashing to the ground.<\/p>\n<p> St John\u2019s coach Rick Pitino, who led Providence to the 1987 Final Four, was in the middle of it, trying to hold back his players. But several entered the fray as it drifted toward the Red Storm\u2019s visitors\u2019 bench.<\/p>\n<p> The game was delayed by nearly 20 minutes while the referees sorted out the punishments: four St John\u2019s players were booted and two from Providence, and by the time the Friars got the ball back they had watched a one-point lead turn into a four-point deficit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re not supposed to come off the bench, but you can\u2019t let your players get beat up,\u201d Pitino said after the 79-69 victory gave the Red Storm its 11th straight win. \u201cYou can\u2019t fight. Back when I was the Kentucky coach we fought almost every SEC game, and it was not a big deal. But you can\u2019t fight any more, so toughness has to come between the lines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/14\/st-johns-providence-basketball-fight-ejections\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police enter court amid fracas sparked by hard foul Coach Rick Pitino holds back players as tempers flare Six players were ejected from Saturday\u2019s college basketball game between No. 17 St John\u2019s and Providence after a fracas resulting from a hard foul by Friars forward Duncan Powell on Bryce Hopkins sent the Red Storm star &#8230; <a title=\"Six ejected after fight forces 20-minute delay in St John\u2019s-Providence basketball game\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/six-ejected-after-fight-forces-20-minute-delay-in-st-johns-providence-basketball-game\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Six ejected after fight forces 20-minute delay in St John\u2019s-Providence basketball game\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}