You toss out the names Chris Mullin and Patrick Ewing, St. John’s and Georgetown, and it conjures up images of epic BIG EAST battles of over 30 years ago. You reminisce of days when Madison Square Garden was brimming with almost 20,000 fans roaring from opening tip to final horn. And you remember some of the animosity that was always present between the Johnnies and the Hoyas.
And while Tuesday night’s encounter between St. John’s and Georgetown again saw Mullin and Ewing going head-to-head, this time from the sidelines, the rivalry, of course, still has a ways to go before it matches those battles of yesteryear.