Postgame Notes: Hofstra 64, St. John's 51

Nov. 29, 2005

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Hofstra won the third-straight meeting in a series between programs that dates back to the 1939-40 season. St. John's holds a 21-4 overall advantage, but each of the Pride's four wins have come in the last six meetings.
Daryll Hill missed tonight's game with a bruised left knee. Prior to tonight, Hill had appeared in all 57 of the team's games (55 starts), including a run of 15 straight starts.
In St. John's last game, a 67-61 win over Niagara on Saturday, Hill played less than 30 minutes (29) for just the fifth time in his career and the first time in 50 games.
In that game against Niagara, Hill became the 42nd player in program history to reach the 1,000-point plateau. The junior is one of 29 players to accomplish the feat in three seasons or less.
Junior forward Lamont Hamilton scored 10 the Red Storm's first 12 points to help the team overcome an early 11-0 deficit. Hamilton put in a dominant all-around effort, finishing with his second straight double-double, scoring a season-high 18 points to go along with 11 rebounds and a season-high tying four blocks.
For Hamilton, the BIG EAST's rebounding leader with 12.0 boards per game, it was his seventh career double-double effort. Hamilton tied a career-high with eight made free throws and matched his number of free throw attempts from the first three games of the season (nine) in the first half alone.
St. John's held Hofstra to no field goals over the final 9:25 of the first half and outscored the Pride 23-6 over that span. Junior center Aaron Spears set a new career-high of seven points with a basket early in the second half. Spears also grabbed a rebound and blocked a shot in 11 minutes of action.
The Red Storm, the top rebounding team in the BIG EAST, continued its dominance on the glass tonight, out-rebounding Hofstra by a 40-32 margin. Seventeen of those boards came on the offensive glass. St. John's entered the Tuesday night matchup averaging a league-best 21.0 offensive rebounds per game.
Sophomore Cedric Jackson, the team's third-leading scorer with 8.7 ppg, made his first start of the season in place of the injured Daryll Hill and responded with his first career double-double (11 points and 10 rebounds).
It was the second time that Jackson scored in double figures this season. Jackson scored 10 or more points three times in 27 games last season.
A career-high seven of Jackson's 13 field goal attempts were from behind the three-point line, as the Red Storm attempted a season-high 24 three-point field goals. Jackson and Eugene Lawrence each attempted seven three-pointers - the most by a St. John's player this season.

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