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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Anthony Glover made sure the weekend wasn't a
total loss for St. John's.
|  | | Anthony Glover scored a season-high 27 to lead St. John's past Michigan in a consolation game at the BB&T Classic. |
Glover scored a season-high 27 points and ignited a second-half
surge that enabled the Red Storm (No. 21 ESPN/USA Today, No. 19 AP) to pull away to a
97-83 victory over Michigan on Sunday.
Omar Cook scored 20 points and Willie Shaw and Reggie Jessie had
19 apiece for the Red Storm (4-2), who never trailed after halftime
in the consolation game of the BB&T Classic.
Michigan (2-4), which started two freshmen and two sophomores,
lost its third straight. LaVell Blanchard and Bernard Robinson both
scored 18 for the Wolverines, who led by 11 in the first half but
wilted under the weight of 18 turnovers and 28 fouls.
Glover, a sophomore forward, made half his 20 shots from the
floor and was 7-for-12 at the line.
"I was hot," he said. "I just let the rest of the team know,
'Why not go to your bread and butter?' There are a few guys who are
leaders on this team, and I'm trying to be one of them."
The Red Storm trailed from start to finish Saturday in a loss to
George Washington, but did not relinquish the lead against Michigan
after finally going ahead just before halftime.
"It took us a day and a half to get a lead, and when we finally
got it I didn't want to lose it," St. John's coach Mike Jarvis
said. "Our play yesterday was inconsistent. In the second half
today, a little bit of rhythm finally came into our hands, feet and
souls."
St. John's led 66-65 before Glover hit a jumper and Jessie hit a
layup. After a free throw by Robinson, Cook sank a 3-pointer to
make it 73-67.
Michigan made a foul shot before Glover scored in the lane and
Jessie added three straight points for a 78-68 lead with 3:37 to
go.
"I'll go home feeling some very positive things about my
team," Jarvis said.
The Red Storm led 50-49 early in the second half before Glover
sank three free throws in the middle of a 7-0 spurt. After a
Michigan timeout, Jesse hit a layup off a pass from Cook to
build the margin to 10 points.
The Wolverines then got six points from Blanchard and five from
Robinson in a 16-7 run that cut the gap to one point with 6:29
remaining.
But the Wolverines didn't get another basket over the next three
minutes, and St. John's pulled away.
"We got some good looks but failed to cash in on them,"
Michigan coach Brian Ellerbe said.
Asked if he could find anything good about a weekend in which
his team lost twice by a combined 45 points, Ellerbe said, "This
gets us ready for what the Big Ten is like. We're going to play
teams at this level every night."
Michigan led throughout the first half until the final five
seconds, when Cook made a layup and Jessie stole the inbounds pass
and scored at the buzzer for a 36-34 lead.
St. John's missed 14 of its first 18 shots in falling behind
24-13.
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