St. John's University Athletics
Sunday, January 23
Queens, N.Y. (Carnesecca Arena)
1 p.m.
St. John's University
vs
No. 9 Connecticut
St. John’s Welcomes No. 9 Connecticut on Sunday
1/22/2022 12:34:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Red Storm faces UConn for its first home game of 2022
QUEENS N.Y. (Jan. 22, 2022) – The St. John's women's basketball team returns to Carnesecca Arena for the first time in 2022 when the team welcomes No. 9 Connecticut for a BIG EAST showdown on Sunday afternoon.
Tip-off is slated for 1 p.m. on SNY with Allen Bestwick and Meg Culmo on the call. Maria Marino will serve as the sideline reporter.
The Johnnies come into the home game at 5-11 overall and 1-5 against BIG EAST opponents. The Red Storm came up short at Seton Hall on Tuesday night, dropping the contest 84-79. Four Red Storm players scored in double figures with Leilani Correa leading the way at 19 points. The Manchester, N.J., native went 7-for-15 from the floor and 5-for-6 from the charity stripe.
Unique Drake logged 18 points, going 8-for-19 from the floor with a pair of 3-pointers. Kadaja Bailey and Danielle Patterson rounded out the Johnnies' top scorers, posting 17 and 11 points, respectively. Rayven Peeples grabbed 13 rebounds for her fifth-straight effort with double-digit boards.
The Johnnies enter the contest second in the league in scoring offense with 74.1 points per game. St. John's also ranks third in the conference with 7.8 3-pointers made per game. Correa paces the BIG EAST with 20.4 points per outing and ranks 15th nationally in the category. Bailey also ranks in the top-10 in the league for scoring with her 14.9 points, placing her seventh. Patterson's 6.7 boards per contest land the Brooklyn native eighth in the conference.
Head Coach Joe Tartamella enters the game with a record of 175-126 in his 10th season leading the Red Storm, one victory shy of tying his mentor, Kim Barnes Arico, for first place on the program's all-time wins list. Tartamella spent nine seasons on Barnes Arico's staff, starting as a graduate assistant in 2002 before serving three years as an assistant coach and four seasons as the program's associate head coach. Tartamella has been to six postseasons as the Red Storm's head coach, including a trio of NCAA Tournament appearances. In 2016, his Johnnies won the program's first BIG EAST title since 1988.
UConn enters the contest at 10-4 this season and 5-0 against league opponents. The Huskies are without Paige Bueckers, the BIG EAST Preseason Player of the Year. As a freshman last season, the Hopkins, Minn. native won The Wooden Award, The Naismith Trophy winner and the Associated Press Player of the Year award. Bueckers suffered a knee injury in a win over Notre Dame on Dec. 5.
UConn comes to Queens following a 71-38 home victory over Seton Hall on Friday night. Olivia Nelson-Ododa led the way for the Huskies with 17 points, 14 rebounds and five assists. The victory marked UConn's 166th consecutive conference win.
As a team, the Huskies average 70.6 points per game while limiting opponents to just 57.6 points per contest. UConn is shooting 45.8 percent from the floor this year and 29.2 percent from beyond the arc. Individually, Christyn Williams leads the way with 14.6 points per game. Nelson-Ododa paces the Huskies with 7.8 rebounds and is tied for the team lead with teammate Evina Westbrook at 3.8 assists per game.
The game marks the 58th meeting between all-time the teams. UConn leads the series 41-17. The last victory for the Johnnies came in at UConn on Feb. 12, 2012, when the Red Storm pulled out the 57-56 victory. Shenneika Smith, now an assistant coach with the Johnnies, hit a game-winning triple to snap a 99-game home winning streak for the Huskies.
St. John's hits the road for a game at Georgetown on Tuesday night. Tip-off is slated for 7 p.m. from McDonough Arena.
Tip-off is slated for 1 p.m. on SNY with Allen Bestwick and Meg Culmo on the call. Maria Marino will serve as the sideline reporter.
The Johnnies come into the home game at 5-11 overall and 1-5 against BIG EAST opponents. The Red Storm came up short at Seton Hall on Tuesday night, dropping the contest 84-79. Four Red Storm players scored in double figures with Leilani Correa leading the way at 19 points. The Manchester, N.J., native went 7-for-15 from the floor and 5-for-6 from the charity stripe.
Unique Drake logged 18 points, going 8-for-19 from the floor with a pair of 3-pointers. Kadaja Bailey and Danielle Patterson rounded out the Johnnies' top scorers, posting 17 and 11 points, respectively. Rayven Peeples grabbed 13 rebounds for her fifth-straight effort with double-digit boards.
The Johnnies enter the contest second in the league in scoring offense with 74.1 points per game. St. John's also ranks third in the conference with 7.8 3-pointers made per game. Correa paces the BIG EAST with 20.4 points per outing and ranks 15th nationally in the category. Bailey also ranks in the top-10 in the league for scoring with her 14.9 points, placing her seventh. Patterson's 6.7 boards per contest land the Brooklyn native eighth in the conference.
Head Coach Joe Tartamella enters the game with a record of 175-126 in his 10th season leading the Red Storm, one victory shy of tying his mentor, Kim Barnes Arico, for first place on the program's all-time wins list. Tartamella spent nine seasons on Barnes Arico's staff, starting as a graduate assistant in 2002 before serving three years as an assistant coach and four seasons as the program's associate head coach. Tartamella has been to six postseasons as the Red Storm's head coach, including a trio of NCAA Tournament appearances. In 2016, his Johnnies won the program's first BIG EAST title since 1988.
UConn enters the contest at 10-4 this season and 5-0 against league opponents. The Huskies are without Paige Bueckers, the BIG EAST Preseason Player of the Year. As a freshman last season, the Hopkins, Minn. native won The Wooden Award, The Naismith Trophy winner and the Associated Press Player of the Year award. Bueckers suffered a knee injury in a win over Notre Dame on Dec. 5.
UConn comes to Queens following a 71-38 home victory over Seton Hall on Friday night. Olivia Nelson-Ododa led the way for the Huskies with 17 points, 14 rebounds and five assists. The victory marked UConn's 166th consecutive conference win.
As a team, the Huskies average 70.6 points per game while limiting opponents to just 57.6 points per contest. UConn is shooting 45.8 percent from the floor this year and 29.2 percent from beyond the arc. Individually, Christyn Williams leads the way with 14.6 points per game. Nelson-Ododa paces the Huskies with 7.8 rebounds and is tied for the team lead with teammate Evina Westbrook at 3.8 assists per game.
The game marks the 58th meeting between all-time the teams. UConn leads the series 41-17. The last victory for the Johnnies came in at UConn on Feb. 12, 2012, when the Red Storm pulled out the 57-56 victory. Shenneika Smith, now an assistant coach with the Johnnies, hit a game-winning triple to snap a 99-game home winning streak for the Huskies.
St. John's hits the road for a game at Georgetown on Tuesday night. Tip-off is slated for 7 p.m. from McDonough Arena.
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