What were the odds that the Giants best pass rushing defensive end would miss seven games, their best overall defensive end would never play wholly at full strength and they would still maybe have the most dynamic defensive end in the NFC?
Boeheim and former Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun, the Hall of Famers who were facing each other on the sideline for almost every one of the Big East games, stood and talked before the game never bringing up the end of the rivalry.
It never upset me because even if former coach Sven-Goran Eriksson was at one of our games, I presumed he was watching someone else and towards the end I never got the feeling he would pick me.