By SEAN BRENNAN | Special to BIGEAST.com
St. John’s and Seton Hall came into their BIG EAST tournament quarterfinal-round game as two programs headed in different directions.
The Johnnies arrived at Madison Square Garden winners of nine of their last 12 games, had the conference’s scoring champion in Julian Champagnie, the conference Coach of the Year in Mike Anderson and in freshman guard Posh Alexander, the first player to win both the Freshman of the Year award as well as Defensive Player of the Year since former Georgetown great Allen Iverson pulled it off in the 1994-95 season.