St. John’s has been waiting for 25 years to cut down the nets at Madison Square Garden at the end of the Big East Conference Tournament. 

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They are now 40 minutes from standing at the top of the ladder on top of the Big East. 

It was St. John’s 79, Marquette 63 and it was Zuby Ejiofor (career-high 33 points with nine rebounds) who put his team on his back and carried it to this showdown against Creighton. 

It was Zuby Ejiofor who seemed to play with a raging intensity and refused to let the Johnnies lose and cede the night or the Garden to Marquette.