Saturday, May 04, 2024
50.0°F

No. 8 Purdue falls to West Virginia

| January 17, 2011 8:00 PM

Kevin Jones scored 17 points and West Virginia used a late 18-6 run to hold off No. 8 Purdue 68-64 on Sunday in Morgantown, W.Va.

John Flowers added 15 points, Truck Bryant scored 12 and Joe Mazzulla had 10 for West Virginia (12-4), which lost in a blowout to the Boilermakers (15-3) last season.

Purdue's JaJuan Johnson scored 26 points in his second-straight solid game against the Mountaineers. E'Twaun Moore added 14 points and Lewis Jackson scored 10.

St. John's 72, No. 9 Notre Dame 54: D.J. Kennedy and Malik Boothe both scored 14 points to help the Red Storm (11-5, 4-2 Big East) past the Fighting Irish in New York.

St. John's lost 76-61 at Notre Dame last Saturday, shooting just 38.2 percent from the field while the Fighting Irish (14-4, 3-3) shot 51 percent.

The Red Storm held the Irish, who entered shooting 36.9 percent from beyond the arc, to 3 for 15 (20 percent) for the game.