St. John's University Athletics
St. John's University
Boston College
St. John's Hangs With BC In First Half
2/8/2004 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Feb 8, 2004
By JIM O'CONNELL
AP Basketball Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - St. John's stayed with Boston College for just over a half Sunday before losing 89-61.
The loss was the ninth in 10 games for the Red Storm, which started the four available scholarship players and one of the four walk-ons.
The crowd of 7,453 at Madison Square Garden was supportive of the team, giving standing ovations to the two players who fouled out in the second half and then to the team at the final buzzer.
Sean Marshall had 23 points for the Eagles (15-7, 4-5), who pulled away early in the second half with an 18-5 run that made it 53-37 with 11:37 to play. Uka Agbai added 18 points and Craig Smith had 15 for Boston College, which had lost three of its last four games.
Daryll Hill and Andre Stanley, the two scholarship guards available, each had 16 points for St. John's, while walk-on Phil Missere, who played 1 minute this season before this game, had 13 points. It was Hill's basket in the lane that brought the Red Storm within 35-32 2:12 into the second half.
A 38-year-old woman told police she was gang raped by St. John's players she met at a strip club outside Pittsburgh early Thursday, hours after the team lost 71-51 to No. 4 Pittsburgh.
No criminal charges were filed against the players, but St. John's quickly disciplined them.
Grady Reynolds, a senior, was expelled. Leading scorer Elijah Ingram, a sophomore, and senior Abraham Keita were permanently suspended from the team and both could be expelled.
Freshman Lamont Hamilton and senior Mohamed Diakite were suspended, and freshman Tyler Jones faces lesser discipline that will be determined by interim coach Kevin Clark.
