By: Michael L. Damon
mdamon@jjay.cuny.edu
(212) 237-8322
Box Score Staten Island, N.Y.— The John Jay men's basketball team was defeated by the College of Staten Island 85-65 in the quarterfinal round of the 2012 City University of New York Athletic Conference / Con Edison men's basketball championship.
With the loss, John Jay's season ends. The 2011-12 Bloodhounds finished the year 12-14 overall and 4-8 in CUNYAC regular season play.
John Jay was led by
Jerome Alexander with 24 points, who closed out a marvelous career. In just two seasons, the high scoring guard netted 1,162 points in 51 games.
Jamar Harry added a double-double to the game with 17 points and 10 rebounds, while
Isaiah Holman had 12 points.
CSI had three players score in 20 plus points as Bloochy Magloire had a game-high 26 points, while Jordan Young had a monstrous game of 24 points and 20 rebounds. T.J. Tibbs added 21 points for the Dolphins.
The Bloodhounds started out the contest hot and opened play on a 13-7 run, six minutes into the contest. The Bloodhounds led by as much as eight in the first half as John Jay led 19-11 with just over nine minutes gone by.
But the Dolphins raced back with an 8-0 run to pull to within one and were down 19-18 with 8:48 to play.
Moments later, CSI took the lead and was up 22-21 with 7:31 to play. John Jay retook the lead on the next possession, but the Dolphins continued to score and scraped off a 7-0 run to go ahead by six as CSI led 29-23.
The Dolphins continued to score. They outscored John Jay 24-8 over the final seven plus minutes of the first half and took their biggest lead of the stanza just before halftime. CSI led 46-31 at the break.
CSI finished out the game maintaining a large lead. The Dolphins, off a three point field goal, went up 49-31 on the opening possession. The Bloodhounds scored the next basket to drop the lead to 16. But the 16 point deficit was as close as the Bloodhounds got the rest of the way. The size of the Dolphins led to a 50-30 CSI advantage on rebounding, including 22-11 on the offensive end, en route to a 23-9 advantage on second chance points.
The Dolphins led by as much as 27 in the second half. John Jay closed out the final five minutes on an 11-4 spurt to cut the deficit to 20 before the final buzzer.
