Marcus Zegarowski scored a team high 23 points on Saturday to lead six Bluejays in double figures, as the Creighton men’s basketball team took down St. John’s 94-82. The win puts the Bluejays into second place in the Big East race.
Creighton started out hot early from the field to get an early lead in the first half. While St. John’s inched back into the game at times, the Bluejays had answers and went into the half up 10 points, 47-37.
In the second half, the Red Storm was pushing even closer as they were able to get the lead down to two points a few different times, including the Jays clinging to a 62-60 lead with 11:18 to go in the game. However, it was key shots by Zegarowski and the other five Bluejays in double figures that would have an answer. Mitch Ballock hit two three pointers sandwiched around Zegarowski with 5 points of his own and two Ty-Shon Alexander free throws to stretch the lead back out to a 75-64 advantage. Creighton didn’t look back from there. Alexander had 16 points, while Ballock scored 10. Denzel Mahoney had 18 points, Damien Jefferson had 16 key points, and Christian Bishop had 10 points while sitting out the final seven minutes of the game with the Bluejays going small on offense.
WBR photographer Ken Juszyk was on hand for the game. Enjoy the slideshow below and then head over to the WBR Photo Store to get your favorite prints.
While you check out the photos, take a listen to the Bluejay Beat postgame podcast with Matt DeMarinis and Ravi Lulla.