MU 69 St John's 67 OT on Blue's Buzzer banker
Blue drives and banks in the game winner
Blue drives and banks in the game winner

Posted Mar 9, 2013


Vander Blue drove down the right lane and banked home a lean in lay in shot as the overtime buzzer sounded, carrying No. 15 Marquette a 69-67 victory over St. John's at Madison Square Garden. The victory game Marquette [23-7, 14-4 BE] a share of the Big East regular-season championship, the first title since joining the conference in 2005-06.

Blue scored 4 of his 16 pts in overtime and Jamil Wilson had 14 pts and 8 rebounds. Marquette was predicted to finish 7th in the preseason but will share the title with No. 5 Georgetown and . No. 8 Louisville.

Phil Greene had 20 pts for St John’s while Jakarr Sampson added 17.

MU players mob Vander after buzzer shot falls through.

The Golden Eagles went on a 9-0 run to start the 2nd half and built the advantage to 41-27 and led 60-51 with 3:50 left before SJ rallied to send it into OT at 6 MU beats St Johns 69-67 in OT on Vander Blue's driving bank shot at the buzzer.

Buzz post game. http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=espn:9035088

Steve Taylor had 5 pts and 7 rebs

That looks pretty good!


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