The one factor that might have made all of this higher is that if someway, for one evening, the nice John F.X. Condon may’ve been transported again to his previous seat, courtside, behind the public-address microphone at Madison Sq. Backyard.
“Welcome to Madison Sq. Backyard, the world’s most well-known enviornment!” is what he would’ve led with, the phrase that he himself invented so many many years in the past.
Then he may’ve added: “Now please set your watches again to 1984.”
As a result of that’s what we obtained final evening inside this pulsating, percolating enviornment in the midst of a imply winter. We didn’t simply get St. John’s first actual signature victory of a signature season, a 70-64 traffic-jam takedown of Eleventh-ranked Marquette.