St. John's University Athletics
Sunday, December 5
Queens, N.Y. (Carnesecca Arena)
7 p.m.
St. John's University
vs
Fordham
St. John’s Hosts Fordham Sunday Night at Carnesecca Arena
12/4/2021 1:24:00 PM | Men's Basketball
Red Storm and Rams Tip-Off at 7 p.m. on FS1
QUEENS, N.Y. – The St. John's men's basketball team will return to action on Sunday when it hosts Fordham for a 7 p.m. tip at Carnesecca Arena.
The game will air live nationally on FS1 with John Fanta and Kim Adams on the call from Queens. Fans can also catch the LEARFIELD Red Storm Sports Network audio broadcast with John Minko and Brandon Tierney on a variety of platforms including The Varsity Network app, XM radio channel 388 and channel 978 in the Sirius XM app, TuneIn, RedStormSports.com and the St. John's Red Storm mobile app.
The Red Storm returns to the friendly confines of its on-campus home following a 95-75 defeat at the hands of eighth-ranked Kansas on Friday at UBS Arena. The Red Storm pulled within three with 11 minutes to go before a lengthy Kansas run put the game out of reach.
Julian Champagnie propelled the Johnnies' comeback effort in the second half, scoring 20 of his team-high 24 points after intermission. The Brooklyn native hit his first five 3-point tries of the period and finished the game with six triples, matching a career-high. Through games played on Friday, Champagnie, who has five 20-point performances in just seven tries this season, ranks second in the BIG EAST with 21.7 points per game. He has been selected to the BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll three times in as many opportunities this season.
Former high school teammates Posh Alexander and Dylan Addae-Wusu tallied 16 points apiece for St. John's against the Jayhawks. Alexander converted on six of his nine field goal attempts while Addae-Wusu, who set a new career-high for scoring, went 4-for-7 from the floor and 6-of-7 from the charity stripe while tallying a team-high four assists.
St. John's will look to get back in the win column at Carnesecca Arena, where the Red Storm is a perfect 5-0 this season with an average margin of victory of more than 20.0 points per game. The Johnnies have won 15 straight non-league games in Queens and are 18-1 overall against out-of-conference foes at Carnesecca Arena under Mike Anderson.
Sunday will be a reunion of sorts for junior center Joel Soriano, who played his first two collegiate seasons at Fordham. As a sophomore in 2020-21, the Yonkers native averaged 10.4 points and 9.2 rebounds per game, posting eight double-doubles in just 14 tries. He finished third in the Atlantic 10 in rebounding and fourth in field goal percentage.
St. John's and Fordham will meet for the 89th time in a series history that dates back to 1909. The Red Storm has won exactly 75 percent of those previous matchups, holding a 66-22 edge over its neighbors from the Bronx. The Rams are the seventh most frequently played opponent in program history, three games behind Syracuse in sixth.
The Red Storm and the Rams last met on Dec. 8, 2016, a 90-62 St. John's win at Carnesecca Arena. Shamorie Ponds, then a freshman, nearly posted a triple-double with 26 points, nine assists and seven boards to avenge a Red Storm loss the year prior at Rose Hill Gymasium.
Fordham has never beaten the Red Storm at Carnesecca Arena since the building opened as Alumni Hall in 1961. The Rams are 0-18 all-time against St. John's on the Queens campus.
The game will air live nationally on FS1 with John Fanta and Kim Adams on the call from Queens. Fans can also catch the LEARFIELD Red Storm Sports Network audio broadcast with John Minko and Brandon Tierney on a variety of platforms including The Varsity Network app, XM radio channel 388 and channel 978 in the Sirius XM app, TuneIn, RedStormSports.com and the St. John's Red Storm mobile app.
The Red Storm returns to the friendly confines of its on-campus home following a 95-75 defeat at the hands of eighth-ranked Kansas on Friday at UBS Arena. The Red Storm pulled within three with 11 minutes to go before a lengthy Kansas run put the game out of reach.
Julian Champagnie propelled the Johnnies' comeback effort in the second half, scoring 20 of his team-high 24 points after intermission. The Brooklyn native hit his first five 3-point tries of the period and finished the game with six triples, matching a career-high. Through games played on Friday, Champagnie, who has five 20-point performances in just seven tries this season, ranks second in the BIG EAST with 21.7 points per game. He has been selected to the BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll three times in as many opportunities this season.
Former high school teammates Posh Alexander and Dylan Addae-Wusu tallied 16 points apiece for St. John's against the Jayhawks. Alexander converted on six of his nine field goal attempts while Addae-Wusu, who set a new career-high for scoring, went 4-for-7 from the floor and 6-of-7 from the charity stripe while tallying a team-high four assists.
St. John's will look to get back in the win column at Carnesecca Arena, where the Red Storm is a perfect 5-0 this season with an average margin of victory of more than 20.0 points per game. The Johnnies have won 15 straight non-league games in Queens and are 18-1 overall against out-of-conference foes at Carnesecca Arena under Mike Anderson.
Sunday will be a reunion of sorts for junior center Joel Soriano, who played his first two collegiate seasons at Fordham. As a sophomore in 2020-21, the Yonkers native averaged 10.4 points and 9.2 rebounds per game, posting eight double-doubles in just 14 tries. He finished third in the Atlantic 10 in rebounding and fourth in field goal percentage.
St. John's and Fordham will meet for the 89th time in a series history that dates back to 1909. The Red Storm has won exactly 75 percent of those previous matchups, holding a 66-22 edge over its neighbors from the Bronx. The Rams are the seventh most frequently played opponent in program history, three games behind Syracuse in sixth.
The Red Storm and the Rams last met on Dec. 8, 2016, a 90-62 St. John's win at Carnesecca Arena. Shamorie Ponds, then a freshman, nearly posted a triple-double with 26 points, nine assists and seven boards to avenge a Red Storm loss the year prior at Rose Hill Gymasium.
Fordham has never beaten the Red Storm at Carnesecca Arena since the building opened as Alumni Hall in 1961. The Rams are 0-18 all-time against St. John's on the Queens campus.
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