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New York Post Back Page Fantastically Captures Rutgers-St. John’s Craziness

The end of yesterday’s Big East Tournament game between Rutgers and St. John’s (or what passed for the end, at least) was total insanity. The ranting and raving, the stepping out of bounds with time left on the clock and flinging the ball into the stands, the referees leaving the court…seemingly no one knew what was what. Should it come as a surprise that the New York Post (the paper that gave the world this) would capture the chaos of the moment better than anyone?

Well done, ladies and gents of the Post. It has everything one might expect from the paper – the semi-curse in large font barely concealed by well-chosen symbols, the “clock crock” rhyme, alliteration “refs rob Rutgers”…all while immortalizing the “stepping out of bounds with 1.7 seconds left” moment – and hopefully, shaming the referees involved further.

If a spectacle like yesterday’s was going to happen, at least it happened in New York Post territory. Nuttiness deserves nuttiness, and looking at that cover, we’re confident you’ll agree.