Quincy Douby had a miserable first half scoring only 8 points for the Scarlet Knights. Yet, while both he and his teammates shot poorly in the first half (just 9 for 27 or 33.3% and 9-26 in the second half for 34.0% for the game.), they still managed to battle St. John’s (they shot just 20-47 or 42.6% for the game themselves) to the final seconds of the game. Douby would finish with a game-high 23 points--ironically just about 3 points below his average. Both he and the Scarlet Knights could have used the final shot, attempted with 4.4 second remaining, that got away.
With the score 52-51 and just 6.6 seconds left in the game, RU's Anthony Farmer missed a jumper. A bad call on the ball going out of bounds on the rebound gave the ball to St. John’s. There followed a 5-second call on St. John’s giving the ball back to RU. On the inbounds play Quincy Douby shot and watched helplessly as his 3-point attempt from the right corner with just 4.4 seconds went in and out. A foul on the rebound gave 6-11 Lamont Hamilton of the Redstorm two free throws which he converted to produce the final margin of victory for St. John’s.
(Game Story and stats here.)
RUTGERS falls to 14-11 and just 4-8 in the BIG EAST.
ST. JOHN'S improves to 11-12 and is also 4-8 in the BIG EAST. The two teams are tied for 12th place in the league and the final tournament position.
Rutgers heads to Tampa to play South Florida Saturday, Feb. 18 in a game televised on MSG at 7:00 PM
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