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NEW YORK – The Georgetown University men’s basketball team fell to the St. John’s University Red Storm, 72-69 at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night. With the loss, the Hoyas stand at 13-17 on the season with a 5-14 record in BIG EAST play while the Red Storm improves to 24-6 with a 17-2 record in league action.
ON THE RECORD
“In order for the BIG EAST to continue to thrive, Georgetown has to be better. I have to do a better job. I feel we’ve done a lot of things from an infrastructure alignment standpoint. Now the next phase is to win … Until the last ball bounces, our kids are resilient. We continue to show up, we continue to play hard, we continue to play better and we continue to play with some joy.” – Head Coach Ed Cooley
HOYA HIGHLIGHTS
For the second time in as many games, Kayvaun Mulready came off the bench to lead the Hoyas in scoring, tallying 20 points on 50.0% (6-12) shooting from the floor to go along with a 4-for-4 performance from the charity stripe.
Jeremiah Williams managed 17 points on six made field goals and a 4-for-5 performance from the charity stripe.
Malik Mack rounded out those in double figures with 15 points on 53.8% (7-13) shooting.
Mulready grabbed a game-best seven boards while Mack chipped in five.
Mack dished out five helpers to lead a squad that tallied 17 assists on 27 field goals.
For the game, Georgetown shot 48.2% (27-56).
The Blue & Gray was outrebounded by St. John’s 40-34.
RED STORM HIGHLIGHTS
Zuby Ejiofor tallied a game-best 23 points on 10-for-13 shooting to lead a trio of St. John’s players in double figures. Joson Sanon added 15 points off the bench followed by Dylan Darling’s 12.
Ejiofor led the Red Storm on the glass grabbing seven rebounds.
Dillon Mitchell dished out a squad-best six assists followed by Ejiofor’s five.
St. John’s shot 39.4% (26-66) from the floor and 21.4% (6-28) from beyond the arc.
HOW IT HAPPENED
St. John’s got on the board first but the Hoyas strung together a 7-2 run over the next 2:03 fueled by buckets from Julius Halaifonua and Malik Mack and capped by a J. Williams triple. The teams traded points until the Red Storm put together five straight to take a 15-14 lead.
The STJ lead was short-lived as J. Williams served up the Jayden Fort alleyoop dunk on the other end to spark a 9-3 run, featuring another J. Williams bucket, a Kayvaun Mulready triple and a Mack jumper to give GU the 23-17 lead and force a Red Storm timeout.
A St. John’s triple would make it a one-possession game until a Halaifonua layup gave the Hoyas a five-point lead. The Blue & Gray would hold a two-possession advantage through the remainder of the frame as the squads went into the break with Georgetown up 34-26.
The Red Storm came out of the locker room firing, cutting the deficit to four early but a Mulready 3-pointer followed by a Halaifonua dunk pushed the advantage to nine (41-32) with 16:21 on the clock. After a pair of STJ free throws, a trio from the charity stripe for Mulready pushed GU’s lead to double digits. A minute and a half later the Blue & Gray coupled a J. Williams bucket and a Mack jumper to take a 48-36 lead, its largest of the game.
Georgetown was up 10 (50-40) with 12:21 on the clock but the Red Storm would not go away, chipping away with an 8-2 run to make it a four-point game. The Hoyas would push the lead back to seven (55-48) before a 13-2 STJ run put the home team up 61-57.
A Mulready 3-pointer cut the deficit to one (66-65) but the 18th-ranked Red Storm tallied two more buckets to push the gap back to five. A J. Williams bucket with 16.6 ticks on the clock pulled GU within one once again (70-69) but free throws on the other end pushed it back to three to complete the come-from-behind 72-69 victory for St. John’s.
OF NOTE
Mulready recorded a career-high 20 points on 6-for-12 shooting, including four made 3-pointers. It is his first 20-point outing and he is the fifth Hoya this season with a 20-point performance. He joins KJ Lewis, Mack, Halaifonua and C. Williams to achieve the feat.
UP NEXT
Georgetown returns to action on Saturday, March 7 when they take on the Providence College Friars at Capital One Arena Tipoff in the District is scheduled for 8 p.m. and the game will be broadcast on truTV with J.B. Long calling the play-by-play, Chris Spatola providing analysis and Jared Greenberg reporting from the sidelines. The game can be heard locally on Team 980 as well as on the SiriusXM app with Rich Chvotkin, in his 52nd season as the Voice of the Hoyas, calling the action.
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