News & Notes 2020-21 St. John's Red Storm
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St. John’s St. John’s (6-5, 1-4) vs. No. 7/5 Creighton (9-2, 5-1) (6-5, 1-4 BIG EAST) GAME Saturday, January 9, 2020 • 12 p.m. ET • CHI Health Center Omaha (17,352) • Omaha, Neb. TV: FS1 (Eric Collins, Nick Bahe) N25 SAINT PETER’S (CA)* W, 76-75 12 ST. JOHN’S IMG RADIO NETWORK: 570 WMCA (John Minko, Tarik Turner) N26 LA SALLE (CA)* W, 82-65 N30 vs. Boston College # W, 97-93 D2 vs BYU ^ L, 74-68 News & Notes 2020-21 D6 STONY BROOK (CA) W, 89-66 4 The Red Storm will close a two-game road swing when it travels Stats D8 RIDER (CA) W, 82-79 to Omaha on Saturday. The Johnnies will look for their first win D11 • at Seton Hall L, 77-68 in Omaha since Jan. 30, 2019, when Shamorie Ponds nearly tallied a triple-double with 26 points, eight boards, eight assists and six 6-5 Overall 9-2 D13 • at Georgetown L, 97-94 OT steals. Their last road win against a ranked foe came just six days 1-4 Conference 5-1 D17 • No. 9/9 CREIGHTON (CA) L, 94-76 later the Johnnies downed No. 10/9 Marquette in Milwaukee on 80.6 PPG 82.0 D20 • GEORGETOWN (CA) W, 94-83 Feb. 5, 2019. 79.3 Opp PPG 68.0 J6 • at Xavier L, 69-61 4The Johnnies’ last win against a ranked foe came on March 1 in Queens when Greg Williams Jr. scored 21 points in a win over the .452 FG% .491 J9 • at Creighton 12 p.m. No. 10/9 Bluejays. St. John’s is 2-7 against Associated Press ranked J12 • BUTLER (CA) 7 p.m. opponents under Mike Anderson. .478 OPP FG% .391 J16 • MARQUETTE (CA) 2 p.m. 4The Red Storm endured a 17-day layoff between its Dec. 20 win .329 3FG% .381 J18 • at Connecticut 5 p.m. over Georgetown at Carnesecca Arena and Wednesday’s loss to .377 OPP 3FG% .333 Xavier. It marked just the fourth time in the last 100 years and J27 • at DePaul TBD the first since 1994-95 that St. John’s faced a break of 17 days .727 FT% .667 J31 • CONNECTICUT (CA) TBD or longer. 36.6 Rebounds 37.5 F3 • VILLANOVA (CA) TBD 4The Johnnies enter the weekend with an 0-3 record in true road 17.9 Assists 17.3 games, all of which have come during BIG EAST play. Julian F6 • at Providence TBD Champagnie is averaging 17.3 points and 9.0 rebounds in those 13.5 Turnovers 11.3 F10 • at Butler TBD three outings. 4.0 Blocks 4.5 F16 • XAVIER (CA) TBD 4After Saturday, St. John’s will have already wrapped a pair of regular 10.5 Steals 7.4 F20 • at Marquette TBD season series against Creighton and Georgetown despite having yet to play six of the other 10 BIG EAST programs. F23 • at Villanova TBD About the Series with Creighton M3 • PROVIDENCE (CA) TBD Last Five Meetings vs. Creighton M6 • SETON HALL (CA) TBD Record 12/17/20............................... Creighton, 94-76 St. John’s trails 10-12 overall and 5-10 in BIG EAST 3/1/20.....................................St. John’s, 91-71 (6-4 home, 2-8 away, 2-0 neutral) 2/8/20................................... Creighton, 94-82 * Lapchick Tournament Overview 1/30/19...................................St. John’s, 83-67 # Hall of Fame Bubbleville at Mohegan Sun Arena St. John’s will meet Creighton for the 23rd time in a series that dates back to 1961. There was a 43-year hiatus in the series 1/16/19...................................St. John’s, 81-66 ^ Legends Classic at Mohegan Sun Arena before their first conference game on Jan. 28, 2014. St. John’s has won three of its last five contests against the Bluejays, including a 20-point victory on March 1 at Carnesecca Arena. Coaches Next Opponent Mike Anderson is in his second season at St. John’s. He was named the 21st coach in program history on April 19, 2019 at Madison Square Garden. Anderson owns a 392-220 career Butler record in 19 seasons at the helm. He previously served as head Tues., Jan. 12 at 7 p.m. coach at Arkansas, Missouri and UAB. Anderson has led his Carnesecca Arena (5,602) teams to 12 postseason appearances with nine trips to the NCAA Tournament. He has advanced on six of those occasions, Queens, N.Y. including two trips to the Sweet 16 and a run to the Elite Eight. TV: FS1 Radio: TBD Butler Record: 3-5, 2-3 BIG EAST Greg McDermott is in his 11th season as head coach at Creighton. He has a 240-117 record with the Bluejays and a Series History: Butler leads 9-6 520-312 overall mark in 27 seasons as a head coach. Before Last Meeting: Butler 77, St. John’s 55 Creighton, McDermott was the head coach at Iowa State, (March 4, 2020) BROADCAST INFORMATION Northern Iowa, North Dakota State and Wayne State. TV: Live national broadcast on FS1. Eric Collins 2020-21 St. John’s Red Storm and Nick Bahe are the announcers. John Morris is the producer. Byron Wrap is the director. Previous Starters (GP-GS) Ht. Wt. Yr. PPG RPG Notes Radio: St. John’s IMG Sports Network 570 AM F 2 Julian Champagnie (9-8) 6-8 215 So. 19.7 7.7 Second leading scorer in the BIG EAST; Has three double-doubles WMCA Radio. John Minko and Tarik Turner are the announcers. Chris Majkowski is the F 12 Arnaldo Toro (11-2) 6-8 240 Gr. 1.9 2.7 Has started last two games and 64 times in his career producer/engineer. G/F 15 Vince Cole (11-9) 6-6 185 Jr. 11.3 2.8 Has scored double figures five times this season Internet: Full H.D. video broadcast via FOXSports. G 0 Posh Alexander (11-11) 6-0 205 Fr. 9.4 *4.3 Leads BIG EAST in steals (2.4) and T-7th in assists (4.3) com. Audio available on TuneIn Radio and G 4 Greg Williams Jr. (11-11) 6-3 200 Jr. 12.5 *2.9 2nd in BIG EAST in steals (2.3) and 8th in 3FG pct (43.3) SiriusXM. Live stats and Learfield IMG College audio on RedStormSports.com. Media stats Off the Bench available at StJohns.StatBroadcast.com. F 1 Josh Roberts (9-3) 6-9 220 Jr. 2.0 2.4 Has shot 9-for-12 from the field in his last eight appearances G 3 Rasheem Dunn (6-2) 6-2 190 R-Sr. 8.2 *2.8 Has scored double figures in three of five BIG EAST games MEDIA INFORMATION G 5 Dylan Addae-Wusu (10-0) 6-4 235 Fr. 5.8 *3.0 Leads team and 9th in BIG EAST with a 1.7 Assist-to-TO ratio G/F 10 Marcellus Earlington (10-1) 6-6 240 Jr. 6.4 3.6 Scored a season high 16 points (7-8 FG) vs. Rider (Dec. 8) Senior Associate Athletics Director G 11 John McGriff (7-0) 6-0 185 R-Fr. 1.3 1.3 Season-highs with five points and four assists vs. Stony Brook for External Relations Stephen Dombroski F 13 Isaih Moore (11-8) 6-10 205 Jr. 10.0 5.8 Ranks 11th in the BIG EAST with a 51.2 FG pct Office Phone 718-990-6897 * - indicates assists per game Mobile Phone 518-928-6103 E-mail [email protected] Last Time Out Inside the Huddle Xavier 69, St. John’s 61 #0 POSH ALEXANDER • Fr. • G • 6-0 • 190 January 6, 2021 4Has averaged 5.5 assists and committed only two turnovers in the last two Cincinnati, Ohio - Cintas Center BIG EAST road games at Georgetown and Xavier 4Has scored double figures in three of the last four games, including a 16 Following a 17-day break from game action, St. John’s fell to Xavier, 69-61, point effort at Georgetown on Wednesday at Cintas Center. 4Top-10 in the BIG EAST shooting 78.6 pct at the free-throw line With the game tied at 51 and just over seven minutes remaining in the sec- ond half, Xavier used a 12-0 run to open up a sizable lead on the Johnnies in the waning minutes. The Red Storm would cut the deficit down to six #2 JULIAN CHAMPAGNIE • So. • G/F • 6-8 • 220 with two minutes remaining, but that was as close as St. John’s would get. 4Top-10 in BIG EAST in scoring (19.7 ppg), rebounding (7.7 rpg), FT pct (90.5 pct), steals (1.6 spg) and blocks (1.0 bpg) St. John’s, which entered the contest ranked last in the BIG EAST in three- point field goal percentage defense, forced Xavier into an 0-for-12 effort 4Leads BIG EAST and 34th in Division I with a 90.5 FT pct; has made last 13 from beyond the arc. attempts at the line 4Has scored double figures in all nine appearances this season and 16 of the Rasheem Dunn put forth his best effort of the campaign, scoring a season- last 17 games dating back to 2019-20 high 17 points on 8-of-15 shooting in 30 minutes of action. The senior guard from Brooklyn had scored no more than 10 points in four games since re- turning from a concussion suffered in the season opener on Nov.