The clock continues to turn back in Big East basketball, as 2017 looks more and more like the 1980s. Chris Mullin just finished his second year of coaching at St. John’s, and this past week, Georgetown announced that Patrick Ewing would replace John Thompson III as head coach.
Ewing and Mullin are both NBA Hall of Famers that even played together on the 1992 USA Olympic basketball team–one of the greatest teams ever assembled–but both got their start in the Big East conference. Patrick Ewing and Chris Mullin going toe-to-toe in conference play was a treat. It was a showdown between two of the NCAA’s best players and two highly competitive basketball programs.