St. John’s, LIU bring deep histories West to represent city game in March Madness

Source: New York Post

When Rick Pitino was a young assistant coach at Hawaii and Syracuse, if he heard of colleagues at other schools getting to work at 6 in the morning, he’d set the alarm for 4:30, get in a quick workout and be at his desk at 5:45. “Everything is a competition,” he told me once, years ago. “Life is a competition.