Last season, Roberts guided St. John's to a 9-18 record, which included three Big East victories.

Holloway scored 17 points in guiding the Pirates (7-6, 1-2) to their first Big East victory.

This was Miami's eighth straight Big East victory.

It was the seventh consecutive Big East victory for the Eagles (13-3, 7-1).

Temple There is little time for the Owls to celebrate only their second Big East victory in 40 games.

And it was its first Big East regular-season victory since beating Villanova by 77-76 in the second to last game of the 1992-93 regular season.

The players vow to keep plugging, but they have yet to find a way to produce a Big East victory.

St. John's, leading by 3 points at the time, went on to a 61-57 Big East victory to snap a two-game losing streak.

Syracuse (9-3 over all) achieved its first Big East victory after three losses by beating Miami, 89-81, at home before a crowd of 25,828.

Still, a Big East victory on the road before a national television audience was nothing to get discouraged about.