St. John’s men’s basketball head coach Steve Lavin announced Wednesday that junior guard Malik Stith has withdrawn from the Red Storm basketball team effective immediately, citing personal reasons, according to a report on the team’s website.
St. John’s freshman guard D’Angelo Harrison, the country’s third leading scorer among freshmen was named to this week’s Big East Honor Roll as announced by the conference on Monday.
Minutes after his taller Syracuse (23-1) team had manhandled the shorter, thinner, and much less experienced St. John’s Red Storm (10-13) 95–70 at Madison Square Garden, longtime Orangemen coach Jim Boeheim was gushing over his admiration for the Johnnies.