For the last 25 years, New York City has lacked a college basketball team that embodied the spirit of its resilient people.
But on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden, a resurgent St. John’s team completed its reminder to the town of exactly what it has been missing. To do so, the Red Storm fought through early adversity, just as they had throughout their three-day run at the men’s Big East tournament, to claim their first postseason conference title in a quarter century.
