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 {{men_s_basketball:teams_stjohns.gif|}} **St. John's 80 {{men_s_basketball:teams_marquette.gif|}} Marquette 68**
-===== Recap  =====
+===== Turnovers Doom Golden Eagles In Loss To St. John's  =====
+{{  :men_s_basketball:02_15_11_butler.jpg}}It certainly wasn't the way the Marquette Golden Eagles envisioned "Al's Night" playing out.
+Unable to slow down reigning [[Big East]] player of the week Dwight Hardy, handle the press or solve the matchup zone defense, the Marquette Golden Eagles collapsed against [[St. John's]] in the second half en route to a disappointing 80-68 loss at the Bradley Center on Tuesday.
+MU (15-11, 6-7 [[Big East]]) committed a season-high 18 turnovers in the loss, which was its second straight and first by double digits this season. Ten turnovers came in the second half, compared to zero over the final 20 minutes for the now-streaking Red Storm (16-9, 8-5).
+Hardy poured in a game-high 28 points, hitting 7 of 16 shots and 12 of 15 free throws to go with six rebounds, five steals and three assists as [[St. John's]] continued its recent hot play under new coach Steve Lavin.
+"I apologize to Coach McGuire's family and those that came in honor of Coach McGuire," said MU coach [[Buzz Williams]]. "Didn't think that we played very well at all."
+D.J. Kennedy added 15 points, Justin Brownlee 11 and Justin Burrell 10 points and 12 rebounds for St. John's, which turned the game in its favor with a 22-7 run in the second half.
+The Golden Eagles got 23 points from [[Jimmy Butler]], 15 from [[Jae Crowder]] and 14 from [[Darius Johnson-Odom]], but just 16 points from six other players.
+Each team entered playing its second game in three days; [[St. John's]] pulled out a road win at [[Cincinnati]] on Sunday while MU lost, 69-60, at [[Georgetown]].
+After battling to a 38-38 halftime tie, it looked as if the Golden Eagles were on the verge of putting the Red Storm away to start the second half.
+A three-point play by Butler, a Johnson-Odom layup and a [[Chris Otule]] dunk gave MU a 45-38 lead and forced Lavin to burn a quick timeout to regroup.
+"It was basically just one of those fire and brimstone, put the light under their fannies," Lavin said about the timeout. "In the [[Big East]], if you come out lackadaisical you will get your fanny handed to you. I wasn't talking about missed shots or made shots; it was just about competing.
+"For 20 minutes, let's fight."
+The Red Storm certainly got the message.
+It got things going in a hurry on the next possession when Brownlee emphatically dunked on Otule on the break, then got MU to turn it over and got a layup on the other end.
+After Butler split a pair of free throws, St. John's went on to score nine of the next 11 points to regain the lead for good, with Burrell's layup at the 12:49 mark making it 51-48.
+From there, [[St. John's]] really began to flummox MU defensively. Combining the press with the zone, the Red Storm gave the Golden Eagles fits at times getting the ball over midcourt. And even when MU was able, more often than not it was forced to use up most of the 35-second clock in order to get off a shot.
+One stretch was particularly brutal.
+With [[St. John's]] up, 56-52, MU managed to get off just one shot in a roughly 2-minute span. The Golden Eagles turned it over three times, with [[Junior Cadougan]] putting up an airball to cap the Golden Eagles' lone look at the basket.
+[[St. John's]], meanwhile, kept its foot on the gas, with Kennedy scoring on a dunk, layup and pair of free throws to make it 62-52. It was at that point the boos started raining down from the announced crowd of 17,270, and they did nothing but grow louder as the bulge grew to 70-57 with 4:40 left.
+The Golden Eagles got no closer than seven points the rest of the way, and the Red Storm hit 10 of 13 free throws over the final 2:27.
+MU wound up hitting 25 of 32 free throws (78.1%) and shot a respectable 43.5%, but got off 12 fewer shots than St. John's. Meanwhile, Hardy, a former junior-college teammate of MU's [[Dwight Buycks]], scored 16 of his points in the second half.
+"You can't give a team 11 more shots in a half, and I thought they got key offensive rebounds as the shot clock wound down that broke our back toward the end of the game," Williams said. "It's just statistically almost impossible to turn the ball over 18 times when you only get 46 shots.
+"It puts an incredible amount of pressure on your offense."
+The victory was the first for [[St. John's]] over MU since Feb. 26, 1966, snapping an 11-game losing streak to the Golden Eagles.
 ===== Box Score =====

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