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Sellers made four 3s in the second half and shot 7 of 13. He had his second-best showing of the season after shooting 3 of 15 in the previous two games against Auburn and Ole Miss.<\/p>\n
Ejiofor also had six points and 10 rebounds. Ian Jackson<\/a> added 14 points in his return to the starting lineup. Joson Sanon<\/a> and Bryce Hopkins<\/a> each had 13 points.<\/p>\n St. John\u2019s (6-3) missed 12 of its first 13 shots, but wound up shooting 51.7% and scored at least 90 points for the sixth time this season<\/p>\n C.J. Anthony scored 20 for Iona (8-4), which shot 38%.<\/p>\n It was the first meeting between the teams since coach Rick Pitino left Iona<\/a> to coach St. John\u2019s in March 2023. Pitino led Iona to a 64-22 record and two NCAA Tournament appearances in three seasons at the school before returning to the Big East.<\/p>\n Sanon sank two 3s in the final 84 seconds to put St. John\u2019s up 36-26 by halftime. Iona cut the lead to 48-44 on a 3 by Anthony with 14:22 left before the Red Storm pulled away. <\/p>\n The Red Storm scored 10 points straight for a 58-44 lead when Sellers hit a corner 3 with 11:31 left and took a 71-50 lead on a layup by Sellers with 7:23 left.<\/p>\n Up next
<\/p>\n Iona: Will visit Vermont on Dec. 20.<\/p>\n St. John\u2019s: Will host DePaul in its Big East opener on Tuesday.<\/p>\n ——<\/p>\n Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here<\/a>. AP college basketball: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll<\/a> and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-basketball<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n NEW YORK — \u2014 Oziyah Sellers scored 16 of his 19 points in the second half, Zuby Ejiofor tied a career-high by blocking eight shots for the second straight game and No. 22 St. John\u2019s survived a difficult start and pulled away for a 91-64 victory over Iona on Saturday. Sellers made four 3s in … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/St-Johns-91-64-Iona-Dec-13-2025-Game-Recap.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13247,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13245\/revisions\/13247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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