A year ago today at about this time, I went for a run. St. John’s and Creighton were playing a game that was nearing the half and it seemed as good a time as any to get some exercise in before another day spent watching basketball and, increasingly, the ticker at the bottom of the screen.
Somewhere near the two mile mark my phone, in the vernacular, blew up. The Red Storm and the Bluejays were not coming back out to finish their game. Xavier’s loss to DePaul had, in effect, ended the Big East season.