It’s not simply St. John’s: As March Insanity opens, the Massive Apple has championship hopes in each the lads’s and girls’s tournaments — and never simply in Division I.
In fact, town’s loudly rallying behind the Purple Storm, led by head coach and native New Yorker Rick Pitino and poised for a deep run.
The Massive East champs and Massive East Participant of the 12 months, R.J. Luis Jr., are the No. 2 seed within the West Area, opening Thursday in opposition to the College of Nebraska Omaha in Windfall.
Over on the ladies’s aspect, the Columbia College’s Lions (23-6) make their second straight NCAA match look; the Ivy League champs sq. off first in opposition to the College of Washington Huskies in Chapel Hill, NC.
The Lions are 11-seed; root for a magical Cinderella run.
In the meantime, over within the NCAA Division III tournaments, the No. 1 ranked New York College males’s and girls’s groups are Remaining 4-bound.
The 29-0 NYU girls — defending nationwide champions — take their outstanding 60-game profitable streak to the College of Wisconsin-Stout within the Nationwide Semifinal in Salem, Va.; the lads play Washington College of their Nationwide Semifinal in Fort Wayne, Ind.
Let’s pull for all these excellent scholar athletes.
