SAN DIEGO — All Zuby Ejiofor wished was an opportunity to play and grow to be the participant he knew he could possibly be, and all Rick Pitino wished was a participant he knew he might develop right into a cornerstone of this system he knew he might — and would — construct at St. John’s.
It has turned out to be a wedding made in heaven, the only greatest purpose why Pitino and Ejiofor will get the possibility to make historical past collectively and lengthen their honeymoon with St. John’s first Candy 16 since 1999.
And as destiny would have it, standing in Ejiofor’s approach on this Candy 16-or-Bust showdown Sunday night time is his former coach, Invoice Self, and his former faculty, Kansas, and a loud, overwhelming military of Jayhawks followers who may really feel that he left them on the altar and let him hear about it.
As soon as Self dedicated to 7-foot-1 Michigan switch Hunter Dickinson, Zuby finally knew that he couldn’t afford to remain, and as soon as he met Pitino, he knew he couldn’t afford to go away.
