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COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. – Saint John's battled to a 70-57 win over Macalester in head coach Jim Smith's 1,300th game on Wednesday, Jan. 8, in Collegeville.

The Johnnies (5-5, 3-2 MIAC) responded to an early 9-5 deficit 5:31 into the game with an 11-0 run and ended the first half with a 9-4 run after the Scots (2-10, 1-6 MIAC) tied it at 20-20 with 3:22 remaining before the break.

Macalester cut its deficit to one point, 31-30, but SJU, again, retaliated with an 8-0 run. Mac came to within four points, 45-41, with 8:22 left, but the Johnnies scored five straight points and later added a 10-2 run to break the game open for good.

Junior Blake Maslonkowski (St. Joseph, Minn./St. Cloud Apollo) led SJU with 14 points on 7-for-9 shooting. He entered the game leading the MIAC (all games) with a .750 shooting percentage. Senior Patrick Butcher (Louisville, Ky./St. Xavier) followed with 13 points and three assists.

Kareem Ismail led all scorers with 17 points in 19 minutes. Griffin Glatt contributed 10 points and Dylan Kilgour added nine points and five assists. Kilgour traveled to Collegeville averaging 15.9 points per game, but was held to a 1-for-8 showing from the field and collected six of his points from the free-throw line.

SJU tallied 19 points off 17 Mac turnovers and registered a 25-6 scoring advantage off the bench. The Scots were 4-for-15 from three-point range but stayed in the game thanks to a 17-for-18 showing at the free-throw line. The two teams combined for 32 free throws on 36 attempts in the contest.

Smith is now 72-28 all-time against Mac, including a 39-11 record in Collegeville. With the win, Smith moves into sole possession of 17th place on college basketball's all-time wins list with a 760-540 record in 50 seasons.

The Johnnies begin a three-game road stretch with a 3 p.m. tip-off Saturday, Jan. 11, at St. Olaf.