St. John's Basketball Score: Louisville Rout Red Storm, 88-63

Junior guard Kyle Kuric scored 20 points off the bench Wednesday to help the Louisville Cardinals (No. 19 in the AP poll and No. 15 in the USA Today/ESPN Coaches poll) beat the visiting St. John's Red Storm, 88-63, at the KFC Yum! Center. The Cardinals (15-3, 4-1 big East) used a 21-2, first-half run to take an 40-19 lead with 4:52 to go in the first half and command of the game. Kuric scored 14 first-half points to help Louisville take a 44-31 lead into halftime. In the second half, the Cardinals increased it's lead to as much as 26 points, 71-45, with 9:02 remaining in the game.

Freshman forward Paris Horne scored eight of his team-best 13 points in the first half for St. John's (11-6, 4-2). Teammate senior forward Justin Brownlee had 11 points and five rebounds. Sophomore guard Malik Stith had 11 points. St. John's is now 6-3 in it's last nine games.

Senior guard Preston Knowles scored a game-best 25 points for Louisville, who entered the game scoring a conference-best 80.7 points-per game.

The St. John's schedule has the AP polls No. 25-ranked Cincinnati Bearcats (16-3, 3-3) coming to Carnesecca Arena on Saturday (4 p.m.).

St. John's Basketball: Louisville's Kyle Kuric Has 14 Points To Help Cardinals Lead 44-31 At Halftime

Junior guard Kyle Kuric has netted 14 points, including four 3-pointers, to help the Louisville Cardinals (No. 19 in the AP poll and No. 15 in the USA Today/ESPN Coaches poll) take a 44-31 advantage into halftime over the St. John’s Red Storm at the KFC Yum! Center.

The Cardinals (14-3, 3-1 Big East) led by as much as 21-points, 40-19, with about five minutes to play in the half. Kuric netted all of his 3-point shots during an eight-minute span that featured a 27-6 run by the Cardinals, which shot 7 of 10 from 3-point land.

Freshman Paris Horne has netted a team-best eight points for St. John’s (14-3, 3-1). Johnnies senior forward Justin Brownlee netted five points in the first seven minutes of the game to help the Red Storm tie the game at 13-13. However, Brownlee never scored after that. Senior guard Dwight Hardy has seven points.

St. John's Red Storm At Louisville Cardinals: Johnnies Try To Knock Off Second-Straight Ranked Opponent

(Sports Network) -- Yet again the 19th-ranked Louisville Cardinals enjoy some home cooking tonight as they host the St. John's Red Storm in a Big East Conference showdown at the new KFC Yum! Center.

Of the 17 games that Louisville has played thus far, all but three have taken place at home and that has proved to be a huge advantage for the squad now that it is back in the national rankings.Last Saturday, the Cardinals slipped by Marquette at home in a 71-70 final, providing Rick Pitino's group with their third win in the last four outings and their 12th in 14 tries at home in 2010-11. Tonight's game marks the 800th in the coaching career of Pitino (586-213).

As for the Red Storm, now under the direction of head coach Steve Lavin, it gained some national exposure on Sunday afternoon when it toppled the Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Madison Square Garden, 72-54. The victory snapped a two-game slide by St. John's, which had only eight days earlier bowed to the same Notre Dame group in South Bend by a score of 76-61.

With respect to the all-time series between these two schools on the hardwood, the Cardinals own an 8-4 advantage and they have won all five battles played in Louisville over the years. However, the most recent meeting took place in the Big Apple where the Red Storm responded with a convincing 74-55 victory.

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