Mike Williams had the ball, and shortly he slipped it over to AJ Staton-McCray, and when the layup nestled into the basket there have been 16 minutes and three seconds left within the sport and Seton Corridor had simply polished off a 9-0 run and seized a 15-point lead and Madison Sq. Backyard felt just like the mistaken facet of a tomb.
These 24 minutes on the Backyard all of the sudden bore an eerie parallel to the bookend 24 minutes the Knicks put collectively simply 24 hours earlier. The Johnnies appeared totally perplexed and the Pirates have been jubilant, and it appeared like they have been about to lie in state for 40 minutes the best way the Knicks had for the total 48 on Monday.
“That’s when one thing clicked,” Bryce Hopkins would keep in mind later. “That’s once we determined to play each possession like our life relied on it.”
Rick Pitino had one other means of placing it.
