That's how long Georgetown kept St. John's from recording a field goal to start Wednesday night's Big East contest at Madison Square Garden.
The Hoyas obliterated the Red Storm 74-42 in a game that generated all kinds of jaw-dropping numbers.
St. John's turned the ball over on their first three possessions and nearly committed a shot clock violation the first two times down the court.
Justin Burrell's bank shot ended a stretch that spanned three media time outs, included 12 turnovers and saw 11 missed field goals by the home team. It is possible that this was the longest field goal drought to begin a Division I college basketball game in the shot clock era.
A sarcastic standing ovation from several St. John's fans was the closest thing to applause the Red Storm earned all night as Georgetown's lead was cut to 31-7.
If Burrell had not scored again from the floor with :33 left in the half, St. John's would have equaled Penn's record-setting solitary field goal from their embarrassing first half against Florida Gulf Coast earlier this season.
The Red Storm's assist-to-turnover ratio in the first twenty minutes? 1:13.
Georgetown went to the break up 41-14, bringing back memories of a 41-9 Hoya advantage at St. John's in 1982. John Thompson II's team then scored the first 12 points after intermission.
It only took 5:35 for St. John's to score in the second half on a Malik Boothe layup in transition.
When Patrick Ewing got free on the left baseline for a two-handed throw-down, the lead was at its apex of 39 and the Hoyas were more than tripling their opponent's point total with 15 minutes still to be played.
It was St. John's worst-ever loss in Big East play and the first time the Red Storm had not scored at least 40 points in a game since 1963. If Georgetown had been shut out in the second half, they would have lost - by one.
Backup center Vernon Macklin was the game's high scorer, recording a career-best 18 points on 8-10 shooting, including a lovely jumper banked off the glass when spinning to his left. Macklin continues to struggle at the foul line, but showed diversity and depth to his game not seen previously this season. Jessie Saap added 10 on the strength of three shots from behind the arc and Roy Hibbert had 11 of his own in 19 minutes of play.
Patrick Ewing Jr. started in place of injured Georgetown forward DaJuan Summers. Coach Thompson said following the game that he went to bed last night under the impression Summers would play but learned today from the team medical staff that it would be unwise for Summers to suit up.
73 days passed since the last time Princeton was on the winning end of a basketball game.
The Tigers' longest losing streak in program history came to a close on Sunday afternoon against Division II Dominican College. Princeton finished its annual exam break with a 60-46 victory over the Chargers.
Sophomore guard Lincoln Gunn was the game's high scorer, recording 13 points. Gunn connected from outside the arc three times.
Zach Finley filled up the box score from inside the paint with 12 points, eight rebounds, four blocked shots, four assists and seven turnovers.
Dominican's only player in double figures was Will Carty, who tallied 12.
If Princeton's loss to Manhattan last month was a shot to the gut, this evening's overtime defeat at the hands of Lafayette was even harder to take.
The visiting Leopards rallied from an 17 point halftime deficit, sending the Tigers to their 12th consecutive defeat, 76-71.
Ted Detmer scored a team-best 15 points off the bench to lead Lafayette. Bilal Abdullah had 14, including a perfect 4-4 touch behind the three point line.
Kyle Koncz topped three Princeton players in double figures with 15 points on 3-10 shooting. Zach Finley contributed 12 along with eight rebounds.
When Lehigh's Zahir Carrington scored in the paint with 16:17 remaining in regulation, he increased his impressive point total to 24.
Single-handedly matching Princeton on the scoreboard.
The Tigers fell for a program-worst 11th consecutive time on Sunday - laboring to put the ball in the basket and unable to stop their opponent in a 68-49 loss to the Mountain Hawks.
Carrington finished with a career-high 27. Rob Keefer had 16 off the bench, 14 in the first half.
Nick Lake and Kareem Maddox both recorded a team-best eight points for the Tigers.
Holding an opponent to a paltry 31.1% from the field and limiting them to 46 total points over the course of an afternoon can be enough to please a basketball coach.
Not Georgetown's John Thompson III.
"I'm not happy with our defensive effort" explained the Hoyas' head man after his team opened their Big East schedule with a turgid victory over Rutgers. We allowed them to get a few things that we did now want then them to get and how they got them."
When head coach Barry Rohrssen was a teenager, siding up to the pool table at Andy's Tavern on the weekends to listen to Princeton coach Pete Carril dissect basketball games over a few beers, he wouldn't have believed that he would grow up to lead Manhattan to their first win at Jadwin Gym in school history.
The visiting Jaspers turned around a 13 point deficit with under 12 minutes left in regulation, defeating Princeton 71-65. The loss was the Tigers' eighth straight of the season.
Coach Rohrssen was caught by surprise after the game upon learning that Manhattan had not won in any of their previous 12 visits to Princeton.
It is highly unlikely that any of the 6,188 in attendance at the Bryce Jordan Center on Wednesday night expected Lincoln Gunn's soft three point shot from the top of the arc midway through the first half to be Princeton's only points in the next ten minutes of play.
Gunn had just tied the score 9-9 at the 10:35 mark off an assist from Kyle Koncz on Princeton's first three of the game, following six consecutive open misses on the perimeter.
Penn State managed only 14 points during this drought, but it was enough to open up a defensive struggle that concluded with the Nittany Lions on top 61-38.
The Princeton coaches and players felt like one got away in Piscataway.
"We thought we were going to win the game all the way up until there were [a few seconds] left on the clock" said senior co-captain Noah Savage. "We planned to win this game."
Jaron Griffin's two free throws with a minute remaining in regulation broke a 48-48 tie between the visiting Tigers and Rutgers on Saturday afternoon, as the Scarlet Knights held off Princeton 54-50.
Lincoln Gunn had 13 points, 10 rebounds and three assists in 38 minutes for the Tigers. He was the only Princeton player in double figures.
"Right now, we just need 40 minutes of good basketball and we're getting 29 or 33 or 36." said Princeton head coach Sydney Johnson after his Tigers dropped a 65-55 decision to Seton Hall on Wednesday night. "Somewhere around the corner, it is coming. Hard work pays off."
It was a short stretch right before halftime that did in the Tigers at Jadwin Gym.
The Chaminade Silverswords led from start to finish in the 7th Place Game of the 2007 EA Sports Maui Invitational, holding off several Princeton runs in a 74-70 victory for the host school.
The win was the first in the Maui Invitational for Chaminade since 2003 when the Silverswords defeated Villanova 52-49.
The Devils changed from Blue to Sun, but on the second day of the EA Sports 2007 Maui Invitational the results were the same for Princeton at the Lahaina Civic Center.
Arizona State used a halftime-spanning 15-4 run to open up a close game, pulling away for a 61-42 victory.
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Fri. 1/31 at Harvard
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