Postgame Notes: St. John's 72, DePaul 64

March 2, 2014

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With a 72-64 win over DePaul on Senior Day at Madison Square Garden, St. John's improves its record to 14-2 when leading at the half this season. The Red Storm went into the locker room up 33-21 after closing the first stanza on a 7-3 run.
The Red Storm posted a +17 (43-26) margin on the boards and improved to 11-1 this season when outrebounding the opposition.
St. John's posted 14 team blocks, one shy of tying a season-high that has been matched twice this season, both wins, against Longwood (Nov. 26) and Monmouth (Nov. 22).
SJU outscored DePaul 13-3 in second chance points, 11-4 on the fast break and 30-18 in bench points.
St. John's was propelled by a 60.9 percent shooting performance from the field in the first half, its highest first half shooting percentage since a 68.0 percent effort against Georgetown on Feb. 16.

Individual Notes

On a 3-point shot with 8:38 on the clock in the first half, D'Angelo Harrison moved into 11th place on the St. John's all-time scoring list. Harrison finished the game with 1,551 career points and is now 25 points away from passing Lloyd "Sonny" Dove for 10th in SJU history.
Phil Greene IV has now hit a 3-pointer in nine-consecutive contests dating back to Feb. 1 against Marquette where he went 1-for-2 from behind the arc.
Chris Obekpa recorded five blocks, the seventh time this season that the center has recorded five or more rejections.
Sir'Dominic Pointer finished with 14 points on 9-of-10 shooting from the free throw line, setting career highs in attempts and makes from the charity stripe.
Orlando Sanchez, playing in his final home game for St. John's, had 13 points and eight rebounds on 5-of-7 shooting from the floor to go along with two assists and two blocks.

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