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Were it not for the hard feelings among the administrations, you’d have to expect all of the Big East players to gather at center court and sing “Kumbaya” this week.

Because this is it — the end of the Big East tournament as we know it. Thanks to the heft of the all-mighty dollar, this time next year, West Virginia will be gone. In two seasons’ time, everyone — save for the Jamaican bobsled team — will be in (although no one has said this expansion thing is over so don’t count it out).

And in its final iteration, the Big East looks to be little more than a coronation for the team that tends to turn Madison Square Garden into its own field of Orange. Syracuse rolls to New York with more league wins than any team in conference history and as the first team in the Big East to complete the regular season dropping just one game overall.

Of course, looks can be deceiving. If the Big East tournament has taught us anything it is to expect the unexpected:

Five-games-in-five-nights champion? Check. Six overtimes? Got it. Allen Iverson versus Ray Allen and Victor Page is your MVP? Yep. It happened. Walter Berry blocks Pearl Washington in a title game? Been there.

So why should the final season of this 16-team setup be different?

Here are some things to look out for in the Big East tournament:

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Muslims at rally: NYPD surveillance keeps us safe

By COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press – 2 hours ago 

NEW YORK (AP) — Members of an Islamic coalition stood in front of police headquarters with signs to support the New York Police Department’s aggressive counterterrorism efforts, saying the agency is doing what is necessary to protect the city — and Muslims.

Imam Qazi Qayyoom, who was among the group Monday, said he believes the New York Police Department is keeping his community safe and if that means some Muslims are monitored, so be it.

“The police, they come to us and say, ‘Is everything OK? How can we help you?” the Queens marriage officiant said Monday. “They are not trying to hurt us. For this, I want to say thank you and tell them I support them.”

Qayyoom and about three dozen other people attended the first rally held by Muslims in support of the NYPD following a series of Associated Press stories detailing the police department’s secret surveillance of mosques, Muslim-owned businesses and college campuses across the Northeast since Muslim extremists attacked the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, killing thousands of people.

The rally, held by the American Islamic Leadership Coalition outside police headquarters in downtown Manhattan, illustrated a divi…………… continues on The Associated Press