Todays NYPost.
Mo Hicks is sitting in a Starbucks on 125th Street, just a block north of Rice High School, when he begins to share some memories of St. John's in its glory days.
"There was nothing like it, the excitement you felt everywhere," he told The Post. "And it wasn't by accident. [Former St. John's assistant coach] Ron Rutledge and coach [Lou] Carnesecca would be up here all the time. He'd be in every playground, every gym."
"Guys would look over and whisper, 'That's Coach right there,' " Hicks added.
Hicks would love to see St. John's back among the college basketball elite, and he is one of the few power brokers in New York who can make it happen. In 16 years as coach at Rice he has established himself and his program as class operations.
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