#6 Duke Defeats St. John’s 80-71 at Cameron Indoor Stadium Saturday

The St. John’s Red Storm suffered their first loss of the season at the hands of the #6 Duke Blue Devils one of the most difficult courts to play on in college basketball. Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski walked onto the court just before tipoff and stirred up the fans into a frenzy. St. John’s started off very well but Duke was just too much late in the first half and Duke was ahead 40-24. The first heartbreaker of the game was losing Justin Burrell in the first minute of the game. He landed on another player’s foot and sprained his ankle. He came back into the game but was too hurt to play. St. John’s played very well in the 2nd half, coming into the lane and scoring most of their 2nd half points in the paint. St. John’s was very tough and had a good chance of winning but Duke had two 2nd half runs that were just too much to stop. I loved their physical play. The Red Storm top two scorers were D.J. Kennedy who had 18 team high points on good 3 point shooting and Sean Evans who finished with 17 points. A good sign was seeing St. John’s shoot just over 50% from the field, something that needed to happen to keep up with Duke. The second heartbreaker was losing the game. One thing that really annoyed me was seeing a Duke student dressed in a nun’s habit. This dope must have thought this was funny and it wasn’t. Dopey had lots of TV time and it was flat out wrong allowing this knucklehead to sit in the stands. I assume they don’t like Catholics in North Carolina much.