Last Wednesday night at the Big East Tournament, as St. John’s was mounting a historic, furious comeback to take down Georgetown, the sports world was in chaos. The worldwide coronavirus pandemic was beginning to cause cancellations, with one domino after another falling. In a matter of just a couple of hours — overlapping the end of that St. John’s/Georgetown game and the start of the second game of the night between DePaul and Xavier — things escalated faster than you could keep up with.
At 3:30pm Omaha time, the first big domino fell as the NCAA announced it was holding the tournament without fans.