(POST GAME) @Creighton, Sat., Jan. 9, 12 Noon, FS-1 / 570 AM WMCA

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2nd Game
FINAL SCORE
ST JOHN’S 79
CREIGHTON 97

BOXSCORE
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Current GAME NOTES
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1st Game
Final Score
CRE 94
SJU 76

BOXSCORE
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SJU (6-6, 1-5)

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[URL]https://redstormsports.com/sports/mens-basketball/stats/2020-21[/URL]

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Creighton (10-2, 6-1)
Bluejays

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QUEENS, N.Y.  – The St. John's men's basketball team will wrap a two-game BIG EAST road swing when it travels to Omaha for a Saturday showdown with No. 7/5 Creighton.
 
Tip-off from CHI Health Center Omaha is set for 12 p.m. ET on FS1.  Eric Collins and Nick Bahe will have the call on television while John Minko and Tarik Turner will handle radio broadcasting duties on 570 AM WMCA. The Learfield-IMG College Red Storm Sports Network radio broadcast will also be available through TuneIn Radio, as well as SiriusXM channel 386 and streamed through channel 976.
 
The Red Storm (6-5, 1-4 BIG EAST) will look to rebound from a Wednesday loss to Xavier and remain above .500 on the season when it takes on a nationally ranked Bluejays squad for the second time in a little over three weeks. 
 
Against the Musketeers, St. John's led for more than half the game (20:58), but was undone by a late scoring drought and subsequent Xavier run. Beginning at the midway mark of the second half, St. John's went nearly seven minutes without a field goal as Xavier went on a 17-1 run to move ahead by 12 with 3:30 to go.
 
After scoring no more than 10 points in any of his first five appearances this year, Rasheem Dunn exploded for a season-high 17 points on 8-of-15 shooting against Xavier on Wednesday.  The redshirt senior guard was one of two Brooklyn natives to finish in double figures, as Julian Champagnie tallied 15 points and nine boards.  Champagnie, who fell a rebound shy of a double-double for the second straight game, has reached double figures in all nine of his outings this season and currently ranks second in the BIG EAST in scoring at 19.7 points per game.  Additionally, Champagnie also ranks in the top 10 of the BIG EAST in rebounding (6th- 7.7 rpg), steals (6th- 1.6 spg), and blocks (9th- 1.0 bpg) while leading the conference in free throw percentage (90.5%).
 
Entering the game shooting 50.0 percent from the floor on the season, Greg Williams Jr. had an uncharacteristic shooting night, making just three of his 12 field goal attempts and finishing with eight points.  Dating back to his 21-point outburst against Creighton last March at Carnesecca Arena, St. John's is 6-1 in games when Williams scores 13 or more points and 5-0 in games when Williams posts at least 17.
 
St. John's will look to upend a ranked opponent for the first time since that memorable win over the then-No. 10/11 Bluejays at Carnesecca Arena when Williams connected on seven 3-pointers.  That victory was one of two against ranked opponents in Mike Anderson's first year at the helm of the Red Storm, as the Johnnies also took down No. 16/17 Arizona in San Francisco.  The Red Storm's last win on the road against a ranked opponent came on Feb. 5, 2019, when the Johnnies completed a regular season sweep of No. 10/9 Marquette in Milwaukee.  A triumph over the seventh ranked Bluejays would give the Johnnies their highest rated win since downing eventual national champion and top-ranked Villanova on Feb. 7, 2018.
 
After losing their conference opener to Marquette on Dec. 14, the Bluejays (9-2, 5-1 BIG EAST) have gone on a tear, winning five straight against league foes.  In the team's most recent outing on Wednesday night in Omaha, Creighton made its first six 3-pointers of the night in an 89-53 rout of Seton Hall.  11 different Bluejays scored a bucket, led by 19 from Damien Jefferson.  As a team, Creighton shot 59.6 percent from the floor and 54.2 percent from deep against the Pirates.
 
Jefferson is one of five Bluejays averaging double figures on the season.  Preseason BIG EAST Player of the Year Marcus Zegarowski leads the team with 14.1 points per game while Denzel Mahoney is not far behind at 13.8 points per contest. 
 
St. John's is 10-12 all-time against Creighton in a series that dates back to 1961.  In 2018-19, the Red Storm won for the first time in Omaha behind a near triple-double from Shamorie Ponds that featured 26 points, eight rebounds, eight assists and six steals. 
 
Last season, Marcellus Earlington had a career-best outing at CHI Health Center Omaha on Feb. 8, posting a 25-point, 10-rebound double-double.
 
After Saturday's game, the Red Storm will return to Carnesecca Arena for a pair of home contests, welcoming Butler on Jan. 12 before hosting Marquette on Jan. 16.
 
At least it was a quick death. Game started some time after 12pm and ended at 1:47.
 
I think the long layoff and the canceling of the DePaul game have taken a significant toll on this team.
But give Creighton credit. They came out and played hard.
 
Hopefully if college basketball fan Rev. Brian J. Shanley watched the game he will not decide to pull his commitment to become St. John's President.
 
MainMan" post=412011 said:
I think the long layoff and the canceling of the DePaul game have taken a significant toll on this team.
But give Creighton credit. They came out and played hard.

A toll?  How?
 
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Smart kid;

Julian Champagnie. "We can't rely on our offense to beat teams. I feel like that's where we are right now." #sjubb

zach B
 
This team can't defend the layup or the 3 point shot. That's why Creighton took very few mid range shots.
 
This is the first time that I have started to question CMA's approach. The 40 minutes of hell defense allowed Creighton 59 points on 60% shooting and assists on more than three quarters of their baskets in the first half. Our defense also generated a grand total of 3 turnovers during that time. I concentrated on watching our defense during the first half. Anytime a Creighton player took a jab step or made a ball fake, our guy would leave his feet and the Creighton player would easily go around him. We don't rotate well when that happens and Creighton would often end up with an open guy for an easy basket. We also switch everything, so we often end up with a guard on a Creighton big man for an easy basket. In short, a smart well coached team  easily carved our defense to shreds because we were not fundamentally sound.

Lord knows how many points Creighton would have scored if Marcus Z. had played. I think that part of our problem is that we try to play at warp speed at both ends of the floor. If we slowed it down just a tad, we would play more in control and be better off.

I am starting to believe that CMA's record of not having a losing season is in serious jeopardy.
 
We need at least 3 quality transfers for next year to right the ship.  We're simply not good enough. 
 
No use specualting on what this team needs until we start playing defense.  Any turn around must start there.  
 
Sju grad 13" post=412018 said:
You're nuts if you don't think he's been contacted by feelers already. Both him and his brother have.

I can make that case for 1000 kids across the country does that make it right to irresponsibly speculate that he could transfer.  There is nothing prompting you to say that publicly.

 
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Sju grad 13" post=412018 said:
You're nuts if you don't think he's been contacted by feelers already. Both him and his brother have.

Well, if true let's hope that CMA and staff's relationship with him is strong enough to overcome that. We should be putting out feelers to his brother. 
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That game went about the way I expected it would.  Unfortunately we still have no defense at all which is really surprising given that it's Anderson's calling card. 

It seemed to me that the game got away when Kahlbrenner came in. The need to collapse on him in the paint just made open 3s become wide open 3s.  And Creighton shares the ball really well which is a challenge for our approach.

Lost to a very good team while playing on the road. Is what it is. 

But this team needs some good news so hopefully they can regroup and win 2 or 3 of the upcoming games. 
 
Must be nice to have a team were they have 7 or 8 players that can legit hit 3's  consistently. We missed out on so many loose balls and long rebounds . heck 1 landed in hands of a hurt player on his knees who still found an open man for another 3. Well on to the next and I will root hard for a win again. Haven't gave up since I became a fan in the early 80's not gonna give up now. 
 
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Undersized, Underskilled and Under-committed to playing defense.

At least 3 careless long passes on transition.

And, we let opponents get too comfortable. Not advocating dirty play but O'Connell should have been knocked into 1st row at least once.
 
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