Only a little while after DePaul made history as the first 16-seed to ever win a conference tournament game, Wally Rutecki became the first backup official to get into a Big East Tournament game. That’s according to longtime commissioner Mike Tranghese.

St. John’s D.J. Kennedy was fouled driving to the basket and banged heads with official Mike Kitts with 16:33 remaining. Kitts, who booted Huggins from a 2003 NCAA Tournament game, was on the ground for three minutes, but eventually got back up after waving a stretcher off the floor. Classic Garden ovation followed as Kitts left and Rutecki entered.