Once a few minutes melts, the leads start to grow, that's when you get the last cues. As the seconds slid to zero, the cushions became more comfortable until the 82-66 final and we saw what the team and the Town Twin would do.
“We've been saying it all year round,” says Rick Pitino after the final buzzer, after red, white and blue confetti was released like colorful hails inside Madison Square Garden, before his team patrolling the blue Werner ladder to cut the net. “We're a New York City team.”
New York is St. John's City. We've always talked about history, all NIT titles, great teams of the 1980s who had once made great Luanecca go and declared. “Today these blowjobs walked with the king.” But for a long time, it all seemed to be soaked in permanent black and white colours.
That was yesterday. It was about the archives.
