It was like that a lot in the old days, too, back when there were two ranked teams on the floor and St. John’s was one of them, the way it was last night as they tested their No. 12 (with a

St. John’s will not play the stylish basketball that has otherwise limited, even bogged down the game at the collegiate and professional levels. No, this is a throwback that most New Yorkers of an older generation fell in love with 30 years ago.