Red Storm Meets Humboldt State Monday In Final Exhibition

Nov. 3, 2013

QUEENS, N.Y. - St. John's exhibition calendar concludes with a visit from the Humboldt State Lumberjacks on Monday, Nov. 4 at 7:30 p.m. at Carnesecca Arena. The game - the second exhibition contest in three days for the Red Storm - will air live nationally on ESPN3. St. John's is the only school in the nation that regularly airs its exhibition men's and women's basketball contests on a national platform.

Recap: St. John's 82, San Francisco State 80

D'Angelo Harrison's15-footer with 17 seconds to play on Saturday helped lift the Red Storm to an 82-80 exhibition victory over San Francisco State. The junior guard and preseason All-BIG EAST first team selection totaled 29 points, connected on 8-of-15 field goals, made 3-of-6 3-point attempts and fired at a 10-of-12 clip from the free throw line.
BIG EAST Preseason Rookie of the Year Rysheed Jordanscored 16 points on 6-of-7 shooting, including drilling his only shot from long-range, and put forward a 3-of-4 effort from the charity stripe. The lone freshman also contributed four rebounds, four steals and three assists.
Also making a strong unofficial debut, senior Orlando Sanchez scored nine points with a game-high 10 boards (four offensive) with four assists and four steals. Graduate forward God'sgift Achiuwa, seeing his first action after a redshirt season in 2012-13, had an impact off the bench with eight points and nine rebounds. Junior swingman Sir'Dominic Pointertallied 11 points - including a 5-of-6 performance at the line - and collected six rebounds (three offensive) with four steals.
Nefi Perdomo, who led the Gators with 23 points, missed a jumper with eight seconds left. Harrison made his final free throw and Will Overton Jr. of the Gators couldn't connect on his 3-point attempt as time expired.
The Gators led 73-65 with 8:30 to play, their biggest lead of the game and a 16-point swing from when the Red Storm held a 12-4 advantage at 14:49 in the first half. The Gators shot 51.6 percent for the game (32-of-62), including 9-of-16 from 3-point range, and notched 18 assists on 32 field goals.
Broadcast Information
The Red Storm's Monday exhibition contest will be carried live nationally on ESPN3 as a production of the newly-created St. John's Television Network (SJU-TV). Play-by-play announcer Eamon McAnaney and national college basketball analyst and former St. John's guard Tarik Turnerwill bring fans all of the action from courtside, joining the raucous crowd of Red Storm fans expected to be on hand in Queens.
ESPN3 is ESPN's live multi-screen sports network, a destination that delivers thousands of global sports events annually and is accessible online at WatchESPN.com, on smartphones and tablets via the WatchESPN app, and streamed on televisions through ESPN on Xbox LIVE to Gold members and Apple TV. ESPN3 is currently available to 85 million homes at no additional cost to fans who receive their high-speed Internet connection or video subscription from an affiliated service provider. The network is also available at no cost to approximately 21 million U.S. college students and U.S.-based military personnel via computers connected to on-campus educational networks and on-base military networks. By way of providers like Time Warner Cable, Cablevision and Verizon, all of New York and much of the Tri-State area now has access to ESPN3 programming.
League-Best Four St. John's Players Earn Preseason All-BIG EAST Honors
St. John's earned a league-best four BIG EAST Preseason honors, including a Preseason First Team selection for junior guard D'Angelo Harrison and Preseason Rookie of the Year accolades for freshman guard Rysheed Jordan. Sophomore forward JaKarr Sampson, the reigning BIG EAST Rookie of the Year, earned Preseason Second Team honors and classmate Chris Obekpawas a Preseason Honorable Mention.
Harrison ranked third among all BIG EAST players last season with 17.8 points per game, while Sampson led all BIG EAST freshman in both scoring (14.9 ppg, T-11th overall) and rebounding (6.6 rpg, 11th overall). A BIG EAST All-Rookie selection, Obekpa led the nation with 4.03 blocks per game and established a new single-season St. John's and BIG EAST freshman mark with 133 rejections. Ranked 17th nationally in the 2013 ESPN 100, Jordan represents the highest-rated rookie prospect in the BIG EAST this season.
With a roster that returns 91.6 percent of its scoring and 88.3 percent of its rebounding from a season ago, St. John's earned two first place votes and was picked fifth in the BIG EAST Preseason Coaches Poll with 56 points. Defending regular season champion Marquette (74 points) earned five first place votes and finished atop the poll, while Georgetown (70) had two first place votes and was picked second. Creighton (61), which earned one first place vote, and Villanova (58) rounded out the top four spots.
Red Storm Tickets, Red White Club Information
St. John's Season Tickets are now available. For more information, fans can visit RedStormTix.comor call the Carnesecca Arena Ticket Office at 1-888-GO-STORM. Office hours are Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Basketball supporters can join the Red White Club by visiting RedStormSports.com and clicking on the link to "Giving"to visit the Red White website.
On Deck
Lavin announced in May that his squad will open its 2013-14 campaign at a neutral venue, taking on perennial Big Ten power No. 20/21 Wisconsin on Friday, Nov. 8 (7 p.m. ET, Big Ten Network) at the newly-opened, $19-million Pentagon in Sioux Falls, S.D.
"Playing a Bo Ryan-coached Badger team gives us an early-season test and an opportunity to get a report card following an offseason that will include a European tour," said Lavin. "Having covered the Big Ten for seven years with ESPN, I developed an appreciation for the cohesive brand of basketball Bo Ryan's teams play. Coach Ryan and I have also partnered in the fight against cancer. We are looking forward to competing against Wisconsin and participating in the first-ever college basketball game at The Pentagon in Sioux Falls."
St. John's is 0-3 against Wisconsin all-time, but the two schools have not met since an 80-70 Badger victory in the 2002 NCAA Tournament in Washington, D.C.'s Verizon Center.
South Dakota's new Pentagon by Sanford Health will be a 160,000-square-foot, 3,200-seat facility comprised of nine basketball courts (six high school regulation, two professional/college practice courts and the "heritage" court). While the entire structure features modern design and amenities, the heritage court located in the center of the building will pay homage to 1950s/60s basketball and play host to the Red Storm and Badgers.

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