Hard foul sparks brouhaha during St John's victory over Providence; 6 players ejected

No. 17 St. John's earned its 11th consecutive triumph with a 79-69 triumph implicit Providence Saturday astatine the Amica Mutual Pavilion, but not without immoderate fireworks. 

Six players were ejected from the game.

Providence guardant Duncan Powell sparked a brouhaha with a hard foul connected St. John's Bryce Hopkins. Powell stood implicit him aft the foul, and Hopkins got up and charged into Powell, igniting the chaos.

Players from some sides rapidly entered the fray, and, eventually, the players from St. John's seat could not beryllium held backmost and joined in. Coaches, referees and information tried to interruption up the pushing and shoving from some sides.

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Duncan Powell (31) of the Providence Friars fouls Bryce Hopkins (23) of the St. John’s Red Storm astatine Amica Mutual Pavilion successful Providence, R.I., Feb. 14, 2026. (M. Anthony Nesmith/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

After the crippled was delayed astir 20 minutes, 4 St. John's players were ejected portion 2 from Providence were tossed. Jaylin Sellers and Powell of Providence were ejected, portion Dillon Mitchell, Ruben Prey, Sadiku Ibine Ayo and Kelvin Odih were the St. John's players ejected. 

The hold was truthful agelong players from each squad warmed up astatine their ain baskets.

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Zuby Ejiofor (24) of the St. John’s Red Storm and Jaylin Sellers (2) of the Providence Friars speech words during a melee aft a hard foul by Duncan Powell (31) of the Providence Friars (not pictured) astatine Amica Mutual Pavilion successful Providence, R.I., Feb. 14, 2026. (M. Anthony Nesmith/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

St. John's saw a 13-point pb vanish erstwhile the hard foul occurred. After the hard foul, St. John's went connected an 8-0 tally and ne'er looked back.

For St. John's caput manager Rick Pitino, it was a instrumentality to 1 of his erstwhile caput coaching stops. Pitino led Providence to the 1987 Final Four.

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Rick Pitino of the St. John’s Red Storm and Kim English of the Providence Friars effort to extremity the melee aft a hard foul by Duncan Powell (31) of the Providence Friars (not pictured) astatine Amica Mutual Pavilion successful Providence, R.I., Feb. 14, 2026. (M. Anthony Nesmith/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

The Red Storm, who were No. 5 successful The Associated Press preseason poll, fell retired of the rankings aft opening the play 7-4, losing to 3 ranked opponents and Kentucky. They reentered the rankings astatine No. 25 3 weeks agone and person been climbing ever since.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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