In front of a packed Albert Ali Gymnasium, the St. John’s boys basketball team from New Zealand performed the Haka war chant. The globe-trotting ballers who traveled more than 6,800 miles to get to the annual Nevada Union Invitational basketball tournament aggressively chanted, gestured and stomped in unison at center court, getting themselves pumped up for their impending battle with Nevada Union. Once the Haka war chant was completed, the hundreds in attendance cheered the Kiwis’ intensity, and with that, the NUIT began. “It’s a cultural thing,” St. John’s head coach Bevan Sutton said. “Most teams in New Zealand do …