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St. John's Advances to the Quarterfinals to Face Top-Seeded Xavier

No one was quite sure which St. John’s team was going to show up to face Georgetown Wednesday night in the first round of the BIG EAST Tournament. The one which looked like a national powerhouse when the Johnnies knocked off Duke and Villanova - two top four teams at the time - or the one that dropped 11 straight games to open the BIG EAST season, including a humbling 17-point home loss to DePaul.

Heck, no one was even sure if there would be a Shamorie Ponds sighting against the Hoyas after the Red Storm’s stellar sophomore - an All-BIG EAST First Team pick this season- missed the Johnnies’ final two games of the regular season while nursing an abdominal injury.