• Fri. Mar 29th, 2024

MSG: The Red Storm (6-2) had one of the best shooting runs a team could have. They didn’t miss a shot for 12½ minutes, making 17 consecutive shots in that span and taking a 50-32 lead with 1:30 to play in the first half. Harrison, whose 3-point miss with 13:30 to play was the last unsuccessful shot, missed a 3 with 51 seconds to play to end the run.

St. John’s shooting effort against Fordham’s 2-3 zone was well above its norm and it wasn’t just Sanchez. The Red Storm came into the game shooting 43.3 percent from the field and hitting 29.1 percent of their 3-point attempts.

Sampson made all six of his shots and Phil Greene IV was 4 of 5.

On Saturday, St. John’s was 39 of 59 from the field (66.1 percent) and it made 9 of 15 3-point attempts (60 percent).

“I doubt we’ll play a game like this the rest of the year,” St. John’s coach Steve Lavin said. “By no means have we arrived. We have so far to go before we’re a competitive team at this level.”

Sampson started the shot streak with a move down low and Sir’Dominic Pointer followed with an empathic dunk and then came make after make. The baskets included dunks, transition layups and two 3-pointers.

Vernon McKenzie:PureSportsNY

By Vernon McKenzie

Graduate of New Institute Of Technology with a BA in Communications with a focus on Television Radio. Owner and Executive Producer of PureSportsNY

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