St. John’s Falls Short to Seton Hall, 66-60

In a gritty contest, St. John’s was only able to keep it close with Seton Hall, 66-60.

Both teams were fighting to stay out of the bottom four in the Big East, and both teams were coming off a loss. This contest and the rematch scheduled for Monday, January 24 at Seton Hall are important for both teams if they still hope to avoid playing on the first day of the Big East Tournament.

The first half was largely ugly from both teams, aside from the first five minutes or so. St. John’s opened the game on an 8-0 run powered by Montez Mathis who scored half of those points.

However, as they have all to often this year, the Red Storm offense went silent allowing their opponent to go on a run of their…