St. John’s helped Rick Pitino keep promise to wife with Big East repeat — and issued an MSG reminder

This is why they coach, and this is why they play: to win the biggest games in March for their school and for themselves; to shower under the adulation and the confetti and stand tall in triumph on a ladder on top of the world and snip a precious strand of one of the nets.

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