LAS VEGAS — The saying is that what happens here stays here. That is not the kind of week St. John’s is looking for in the three games it will play in the loaded 18-team Players Era Festival which commences here on Monday. The 14th-ranked Red Storm is hoping for a performance it can shout from the rooftops and that will reverberate all the way until Selection Sunday.

If the Storm flies east hoping no one hears about what happened in Vegas, it means things went badly. Very, very badly.

It’s still the first month of the college basketball season and we are probably three months away from the phrase “NCAA Tournament resume” being uttered daily, but a tournament like this is where such things start taking shape.

Storm coach Rick Pitino called the field “a who’s who” of college basketball a

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