No. 11 Georgetown beats St. John’s 69-49

NEW YORK — Hollis Thompson scored all of his 20 points in the second half and No. 11 Georgetown snapped a two-game losing streak with a 69-49 victory over St. John’s on Sunday at Madison Square Garden.

Thompson, the Big East’s leading 3-point shooter at 52.4 percent, missed four from long range in the first half but he only was off on one of his five attempts in the second, including one that broke an 8-0 run that had brought the Red Storm within 48-45 with 6:36 to play.

Jesse Clark had 15 points and freshman Otto Porter added 13 points and 10 rebounds for the Hoyas (14-3, 4-2 Big East), who had lost to West Virginia and Cincinnati after an 11-game winning streak.

Freshman Moe Harkless had 21 points and 10 rebounds for St. John’s (8-9, 2-4), but he fouled out with 5:15 to play in the midst of a 12-2 run that gave the Hoyas a 58-47 lead.

Freshman Sir’Dominic Pointer had 12 points for the Red Storm, who have lost four of five and dropped to 0-7 this season against ranked teams. Last season, St. John’s had six wins over teams in the Top 25.

Georgetown used a 7-0 run early in the second half to take a 35-25 lead and the final points of it were a 3-pointer and an impressive dunk on the fast break by Thompson.

St. John’s did get the crowd of 11,475 into the game with the 8-0 run but Thompson hit a 3 from right in front of the Georgetown bench to end it and center Henry Sims then got Harkless to foul him on consecutive possessions. He made three of the four free throws but much more important was that they were Harkless’ fourth and fifth fouls.

The Hoyas closed the game on an 11-1 run.

St. John’s, which came into the game 15th in the 16-team Big East in 3-point shooting at 25.8 percent, finished 0 of10 from beyond the arc.

The loss dropped the Red Storm to 1-4 this season at Madison Square Garden with all but one of the losses being to a ranked team.