National Basketball Association
St. John's 67, Providence 65
When: 7:00 PM ET, Saturday, January 1, 2011
Where: Dunkin' Donuts Center, Providence, Rhode Island
Officials:
# Bryan Kersey, # Joe Lindsay, # Brian O'Connell
Attendance:
8157
By SportsDirect Inc.
Winning back-to-back road games in the Big East – no matter who they are against – is enough to make teams take notice, which first-year coach Steve Lavin's Red Storm are certainly doing after St. John's 67-65 victory at Providence on Saturday.
Dwight Hardy scored 21 points and played all 40 minutes for St. John's (9-3, 2-0 Big East), but reserve Paris Horne came up with two of the biggest plays.
Horne buried a 3-pointer with 28.3 seconds left to break a 62-62 tie, and drew a charge on the Friars' subsequent possession. The senior guard had scored two points before the big shot.
Marshon Brooks' 20 points paced Providence (11-4, 0-2), which trailed by as many as 51-39 before rallying to take a 59-58 lead on Gerard Coleman's three-point play with 3:59 remaining.
The Red Storm, which went 6-12 in conference last season, began Big East play with an 81-71 victory at West Virginia on Wednesday, and held the high-scoring Friars 15 points below their season average.
Now Lavin's club really gets tested, as seven of the Red Storm's next eight games come against ranked teams.
Top Game Performances
| St. John's |
|
Providence |
|
Dwight Hardy 21 |
Scoring |
Marshon Brooks 20 |
|
Justin Brownlee 4 |
Assists |
Vincent Council 6 |
|
Justin Brownlee 9 |
Rebounds |
Bilal Dixon 7 |
|
Dwight Hardy 2 |
Free Throws Made |
Vincent Council 4 |
|
Dwight Hardy 2 |
Steals |
Vincent Council 4 |
|
D.J. Kennedy 2 |
Blocks |
Marshon Brooks 3 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Points |
FG% |
3PM-3PA |
FTM-FTA |
Assists |
Rebounds |
Blocks |
Steals |
Turnovers |
| St. John's
|
67 |
52.7 |
4-11 |
5-6 |
15 |
31 |
3 |
3 |
|
| Providence
|
65 |
43.9 |
6-21 |
9-13 |
11 |
29 |
5 |
8 |
|
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