Undoubtedly one of the top teams in the conference, the St. John’s Red Storm were unable to keep their pristine and flawless conference record against a bunch of scrappy underdogs in the tenth-nationally ranked Creighton Bluejays.
On a nice night in Queens the St. John’s faithful walked into the gym with the expectation that their conference leading Johnnies were surely going to run over the hicks from Nebraska, yet the Empire State Building sized Omaha native Justin Patton had other ideas. His ideas were full of thunder and might as he abused the basketball rim over and over again with Chris Mullin’s squad scrambling to regain composure, but alas were unable to until halfway through the second half.