DAYTON, Ohio _ For starters, let's clear up the significance of St. John's having been the very last team invited to the NCAA Tournament. It is like the old question about what you should call whoever graduates last in his or her medical school class. You call that person "doctor."
"The fact of the matter," Chris Mullin said Tuesday on the eve of a bona fide March Madness game, "is it does not matter. It's kind of quite factual."
In other words, when you're in, you're in, even if the head of the tournament committee said you received the last of 68 spots, and even if you must play in the First Four, as the Red Storm and Arizona State will on Wednesday night.
