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Still stunned by the egg the Huskies laid in New York?

Just about to leave the Garden but are a few more quotes and notes after St. John’s 73, UConn 51.

– Another 1-and-done in New York for the Huskies. That’s six straight losses in this tourney and five straight years of wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am.

– In case you missed it, it was UConn’s worst defeat in this event since a 93-62 loss to Georgetown in 1985.

– UConn’s last loss to St. John’s was at MSG on Feb. 9, 2002, an 85-83 overtime loss to the Johnnies. It had won nine consecutive meetings between the schools since then.

– All of the Huskies were quiet and sullen after the game. But none seemed as down as Jerome Dyson.

Obviously his second straight game with just four points will do that. He also had nine turnovers against the Red Storm.

“Me personally I played like (crap),” Dyson said.

One writer asked Dyson if he was “confused” on the court Tuesday.

“I don’t know if I was confused, it’s just I didn’t know what was going on,” Dyson said. “I can’t really put it into words. I turned the ball over too many times. I couldn’t get a shot. It’ll be a game I’ll never forget.”

Dyson has scored 1,597 points in his UConn career.

Over his last three games, however, he’s6-of-26 from the floor with 16 turnovers. He’s 0-for-7 on 3-pointers.

He’s always fighting some minor injury, but is Dyson’s healthy?

“Somewhat,” Dyson said. “But I don’t know. The last couple games I’ve been playing terrible.”

Dyson admitted he had it tough sitting the final 16 minutes against USF on Saturday.

“It hurt,” Dyson said. “My last regular season Big East game in my career and I was on the bench.”

Dyson has never played on a team that won a postseason game in his UConn career.

– UConn’s last trip to the Garden was a loss, too, but it was sort of a positive loss.

“The last time we were here we got beat on a (John) Wall layup with 40-something seconds to go against Kentucky,” Calhoun said, “and I thought the season would not turn out the way it ended today.”

– Someone asked Calhoun why he was so un-animated on the sidelines in the second half, choosing to sit silently for long stretches.

“They had eight dunks in the lane,” Calhoun said. “I’m just not sure how many of those I would have blocked if I had been jumping and yelling.”

– Something I didn’t realize until reminded by a colleague (an intelligent, experience albeit directionally-challenged colleague from Manchester) that this is the first year in a decade UConn hasn’t put a single player on either of the first two All-Big East teams.

The 2000-01 season was the last time no Huskies made either the first or second team. That year Caron Butler made the third team.

This year Jerome Dyson and Kemba Walker made the third team.

UConn had player or players on the first team in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2009. It “settled” for putting guys on the second team in 2005 and 2007.

- Neill