Rally ‘spherical the Big Apple’s March Madness teams – Latest News
It’s not simply St. John’s: As March Madness opens, the Big Apple has championship hopes in each the males’s and girls’s tournaments — and never simply in Division I.
Of course, the metropolis’s loudly rallying behind the Red Storm, led by head coach and native New Yorker Rick Pitino and poised for a deep run.
The Big East champs and Big East Player of the Year, R.J. Luis Jr., are the No. 2 seed in the West Region, opening Thursday towards the University of Nebraska Omaha in Providence.
Over on the girls’s aspect, the Columbia University’s Lions (23-6) make their second straight NCAA event look; the Ivy League champs sq. off first towards the University of Washington Huskies in Chapel Hill, NC.
The Lions are 11-seed; root for a magical Cinderella run.
Meanwhile, over in the NCAA Division III tournaments, the No. 1 ranked New York University males’s and girls’s teams are Final Four-bound.
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The 29-0 NYU girls — defending national champions — take their outstanding 60-game successful streak to the University of Wisconsin-Stout in the National Semifinal in Salem, Va.; the males play Washington University of their National Semifinal in Fort Wayne, Ind.
Let’s pull for all these excellent pupil athletes.
