NEW YORK – Despite leading by as many as 15, the Georgetown University men's basketball team couldn't hold off a late push from the St. John's University Red Storm in the first round of the 2020 BIG EAST Tournament presented by Jeep. The Hoyas struggled to find the bottom of the net late as the Johnnies pushed for the 75-62 win to advance to the quarterfinals of the BIG EAST Tournament.
 
ON THE RECORD
"I thought that they embraced the fact that we lost guys; guys got hurt. I thought that they still believed in themselves. They kept working. [Terrell Allen and Jagan Mosely] stepped up and played extremely well for us. Jamorko Pickett had a spell. And Jahvon Blair had a spell. But I thought the whole team, especially these two guys, when you are building a team, you want to build your team with guys like these."
 - Head Coach Patrick Ewing on the 2019-20 Georgetown team
 
HOYA HIGHLIGHTS

• Terrell Allen's 21 points led the squad as he knocked down 9-of-15 from the field to go along with four rebounds, three assists and a pair of steals.
• Jamorko Pickett joined Allen as the only other Hoya in double figures, tallying 13 points and pulling down a team-best 10 rebounds for the third double-double of his career.
• Qudus Wahab grabbed eight boards to contribute to the effort on the glass as Georgetown outrebounded St. John's 39-38.
• Pickett and Wahab tallied three blocks apiece as the Hoyas held the 8-0 advantage in blocks.
• Georgetown shot 45.5 (25-55) percent from the floor and held St. John's to 37.7 (26-69) shooting.

 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• Georgetown and St. John's went back and forth early but five-straight points from the Blue & Gray behind a Jagan Mosely layup and an Allen triple pushed the Hoyas ahead 14-12 with 13:19 on the clock.
• An 11-2 run, sparked by Pickett, was capped by a pair of buckets from Allen putting the Hoyas ahead 28-26 with 5:57 to play.
• After an SJU bucket knotted the game at 28, the Hoyas went on a tear with eight unanswered as Pickett and Allen drained back-to-back treys followed by a Mosely layup to force the SJU timeout with 3:57 in the first half.
• GU went into the break with the 42-33 advantage.
• Coming out of the locker room, Georgetown was on fire as Wahab opened the frame with a dunk. The lead ballooned to 15 (48-33) on a Blair triple and an Allen free throw.
• A 10-0 run from St. John's was halted when Omer Yurtseven sunk a pair of free throws. On GU's next possession, Yurtseven's alleyoop dunk off the Allen assist swung the momentum back to the Blue & Gray with the lead building back up to double digits (58-47) following a Yurtseven bucket.
• Allen's driving layup pushed the lead back to double digits (62-52) before the Johnnies went on a run to secure the 75-62 victory.

 
OF NOTE

• In the first half (3:22), Allen's driving layup pushed him over the 1,000 point threshold for his collegiate career between Drexel (304), UCF (398) and Georgetown (304). With 21 on the evening, Allen tallied 1,006 points in his college career.
• Mosely's three assists give him 348 for his career, putting him 14th all-time at Georgetown.
• Blair's two 3-pointers gives him 143 for his career, which is good for 12th place on GU's career list.

 
OVERVIEW
The Hoyas close the 2019-20 season with a 15-17 overall record. Georgetown finished BIG EAST play with a 5-13 mark, earning the eighth seed in the BIG EAST Tournament.