Of the images we’ve seen of athletes playing in empty stadiums — see Juventus and Inter Milan earlier in the week — this one sums a lot of it up.
St. John’s played Creighton for one half of a Big East tournament game before the entire event was canceled at halftime. The conference got rightfully roasted as other tournaments were canceled on Thursday. And when the news broke, FOX Sports cameras captured Red Storm mascot Johnny Thunderbird sitting stunned in the empty stands of Madison Square Garden, an image that many folks were citing in the middle of a coronavirus pandemic that’s canceling events everywhere:
