Syracuse's Dion Waiters' tremendous open court breakaway dunk was the exclamation point on a 95-70 rout of St. John's at Madison Square Garden Saturday afternoon.
Waiters followed up one crowd-pleasing Orange dunk after another by stuffing the ball through the rim with his right hand over his head while the St. John's defenders could only watch and admire.
The sophomore guard then glared at the roaring crowd of 19,979 before heading back on defense as his teammates rejoiced.
The Red Storm were manhandled all afternoon on their supposed home court. The Garden stands seemed to have been flooded by orange and anyone in red seemed shell shocked during the Syracuse onslaught.
After Waiters powerful slam gave 'Cuse a 70-46 lead, cheers of "Let's Go Orange" filled the arena with 9:16 left in the game.
Second-ranked Syracuse (23-1, 10-1) was just too physical for the younger, undermanned and smaller St. John's (10-13, 4-7) team.
The win gave Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim his 879th win tying him with Dean Smith on the all-time victories list.
The Red Storm got off to a 5-0 lead and hung tough with the much bigger Orangemen but couldn't keep up with the deeper and taller visitors.
Syracuse took control of the game with about eight minutes to go and lead by as much as 59-31 after a dunk by seven-footer Fab Melo with 13 minutes remaining in the Big East match-up.
Melo—back from a three-game academic suspension— finished the game with a career high 14 points.
The home-town Johnnies fans are probably saying " 'Cuse me Waiters, there seems to be some fly in my hoop."
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