The final 70-50score looks comfortable in the Red Storm’s Gavitt Games win over Nebraska, featuring a strong game from Joel Soriano. The Johnnies — now 4-0 — made the oddsmakers and home fans happy in their first game against major conference competition.
But the game needed a hard reset at the half.
The first half for St. John’s was offensively disastrous. The final tally of 20 points in the half does no justice to the chaos — 10 turnovers in the half, runners into traffic along the baseline, like Nebraska wanted, threes out of rhythm, missed putbacks, complaints about fouls, and the air of a team that had no answers for Nebraska.