St. John’s Scorching Hot Performance Blitzes By Bluejays 83-67

Steven Branscombe-USA TODAY SportsSt. John’s needed this game.

They needed this to save Mullin’s bacon. They needed this to salvage what’s left of a rollercoaster of a season. They needed this to stop going into a complete freefall, especially with Cameron Indoor and Fiserv awaiting them in their next two games.

Shamorie Ponds said his team was split after the Georgetown game. He personally scored 16 of St. John’s 44 first half points. A huge bulk of those 16 points came in the final five minutes of the first half.

In fact, this was a mirror image of what occurred at Carnesseca, a back and forth affair in the first fifteen until Creighton couldn’t hit a field goal to save their lives; a…