Postgame Notes: St. John's 68, NJIT 50

Tonight's meeting was the first ever between the two programs, as the Red Storm cruised to a 68-50 victory at Carnesecca Arena. The victory was St. John's fifth straight, extending the program's longest win streak of the Norm Roberts ERA
St. John's used a 15-0 run at the end of the first half to overcome a 16-9 deficit and take its first lead of the game. Junior Avery Patterson scored 11 straight points over that stretch and finished with a game-high 23 on 9-of-16 shooting.
Patterson has now led the Red Storm in scoring a team-high five times and scored at least 20 points for the fourth time this season. The junior transfer set a career-best with 26 points on the road against Niagara (Dec. 9) in his last contest.
Anthony Mason Jr. matched a season-best with three 3-pointers, all of which came in the first half, and scored 11 points in 27 minutes. The sophomore has scored in double figures in a career-high eight straight games, a span over which he has averaged 14.0 points, 5.4 rebounds, 1.9 assists and 51.8 percent shooting.
Foul trouble limited senior forward Lamont Hamilton to just five minutes in the first half, but he responded by scoring all 10 of his points in the second period. Hamilton connected on 3-of-3 field goal attempts and 4-of-6 free throws on the way to his 49th career double-figure scoring contest.
Freshman guard Larry Wright played 17 minutes, the most for him since playing 25 in the season-opener against North Florida, and scored a career-high nine points (all in the second half). Wright hit a pair of 3-pointers and was a perfect 3-of-3 from the free throw line in perhaps his most effective outing of the season.
St. John's shot an even 50 percent from the floor (23-of-46), hitting that mark for the second straight game and fourth time this season. Opposing teams have yet to hit the 50 percent mark in a game this season, including sub-40 percent efforts in each of the last five games.
The Red Storm again dominated the glass, out-rebounding its third straight opponent after getting beaten on the boards in the previous five contests. Each of the team's top five rebounding efforts this season have come in the last five games.
St. John's took much better care of the ball in the second period, dishing out 11 assists and committing just seven turnovers, compared to six assists and 12 turnovers in the first half.

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