They hoisted Lou Carnesecca on their shoulders the first time St. John’s won the Big East Conference Tournament in 1983.
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TRY IT NOW“Like [predecessor] Joe Lapchick used to say and said after the last NIT win [in 1965], ‘Today you walked with kings,’ ” Carnesecca said that night. “And today these fellas walked with kings.’’
Just three times had St. John’s walked with kings at the end of the Big East Conference Tournament, and Saturday night against Creighton at the Garden, Rick Pitino was driven to have his No. 1 seed Red Storm walking with kings again for the first time since 2000.
His gritty young princes of the city — Big East Player of the Year RJ Luis Jr., Kadary Richmond, Zuby Ejiofor, Aaron Scott, Simeon Wilcher, Deivon Smith, Sadiku Ibine Ayo and the rest — had already learned that there is no better place to win than New York, during their magic carpet ride to the school’s first Big East regular-season crown in 33 years.