St. John’s men’s basketball won the Big East regular season title outright for the first time in 40 years on Saturday. The No. 7-ranked Johnnies defeated Seton Hall 71-61 at Madison Square Garden to claim the program’s first outright crown since the 1984-85 season,

There was a sequence in the second half where Godswill Erheriene blocked a layup by star St. John’s center Zuby Ejiofor, and when Deivon Smith grabbed the offensive rebound, Erheriene recovered quickly enough to lunge and get a finger on the put-back, directing it away from the hoop.

The final horn sounded and St. John’s skipped cutting down the nets. The players instead held the trophy after the No. 7 Red Storm clinched the program's first outright Big East regular-season title since 1985 and posed for pictures on the court while confetti fell from the ceiling at Madison Square Garden in front of a sellout crowd.