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New York — The Marquette men's basketball team began Saturday morning expecting to take on St. John's later that night at Madison Square Garden. Instead of battling the Red Storm, though, they got shut down by a white one as Winter Storm Jonas dropped more than two feet of snow on New York City.

Given the blizzard, Marquette's game against St. John's was rescheduled for 2:45 p.m. on Sunday at Carnesecca Arena, St. John's announced on Saturday afternoon. There will be no live TV coverage of the game, but CBS Sports Network, which was going to air the game live if it had gone according to schedule, will air a replay at 5 p.m.

All tickets purchased for Saturday's game will be honored at the gate for general admission at Carnesecca Arena on Sunday. If fans cannot attend on Sunday, purchased tickets can be redeemed for tickets to any of St. John's remaining home games or refunded by calling the St. John's ticket office this week.

"Any competitor when you're expecting to have a game day you want to play your game on that day," head coach Steve Wojciechowski said. "Given the circumstance, I think we handled it as best we could and made the most of the day."

Before the game was postponed, the Golden Eagles went about their day as they normally as they could in anticipation of playing, but the gameday plan took some early adjusting. The team had a shootaround at Terminal 23, a unique court built by Jordan Brand at the former site of Cafe Rouge near Madison Square Garden.

Instead of getting there by bus, though, the team had to take the subway.

"We took a lot of our guys on their first subway ride and had shootaround and basically a light practice because at that point the game had not been cancelled yet," Wojciechowski said.

Following the practice, the team headed back to its hotel near Times Square and awaited more news. Around noon, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a state of emergency for New York City and the surrounding areas, shutting down city bus service. Shortly before 1 p.m. local time, the New York Police Department announced a travel ban for all non-emergency vehicles that would go into effect at 2:30 p.m. ET. Later in the day regional railways also shut down, as did above-ground subway lines.

St. John's announced the game would be postponed shortly before 2 p.m. local time.

"You're finding out news just like everybody else in terms of state of emergency and travel closures and all that kind of stuff and you start going through what adjustments may need to be made if the game is postponed, which once we heard there was a state of emergency there would probably be a postponement of the game," Wojciechowski said.

"So we met with our guys, gave them a rundown of what was going on from a basketball standpoint and had some movies for them to watch as a group, had some games for them to play, which they did, had some New York pizza then we talked about St. John's again."

As Marquette's players and staff hunkered down in their hotel, watching some college hoops in addition to their other activities, snow continued to pile up outside. The National Weather Service measured 25.1 inches of snow in Central Park as of 7 p.m. ET, making the storm the city's third-largest since 1869. Some areas of the city and state could see upwards of 30 inches of snow before the storm subsides.

The largest snowstorm in New York City history was 26.9 inches in 2006.

Considering the possibly record-setting snowfall that could impede its trek from Manhattan to Queens, Marquette is going to allow extra time as it buses to Sunday's game. Of course, even that plan could change overnight.

"You're going to bed tonight and you think you have a plan but understand when you wake up in the morning plans may have to change again," Wojciechowski said. "You have to be ready to adapt. This is completely out of our control. You can't make excuses, you need to adapt and make the best of the situation at hand.

"We have a ballroom, so we can do a walkthrough and stuff like that while we're still in the hotel. We won't do anything in a gym. No gyms are going to be open, except for hopefully St. John's."