St. Joseph's tops Siena

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - This was a little more like it for Langston Galloway.

Pressing Thursday night against LSU (which is in his hometown, Baton Rouge, La.) in the Old Spice Classic opener, he had a tough night, scoring just eight points.

Friday night, in a consolation-bracket matchup against Siena, Galloway was more himself. He buried shots with confidence, pushed the ball up the floor as coach Phil Martelli has come to expect, and led the Hawks to a 78-66 victory that was not as close as the final margin.

The victory puts St. Joe's (3-2) in Sunday's fifth-place game against Washington State, a 69-54 winner over Purdue in Friday's other consolation game.

Galloway wound up with 27 points and hit 6 of 10 three-pointers, moving him into second place on the all-time St. Joseph's career three-point list with 249 treys. He trails only Pat Carroll, who hit 294 threes from 2001 to 2005.

Ronald Roberts continued his solid play for St. Joe's, adding 19 points, including an exclamation- point dunk off an alley-oop pass from Evan Maschmeyer late in the game.

Roberts had 21 points Thursday, taking him past the 1,000-point mark for his career, a milestone that made Martelli very happy.

"This is a team full of beautiful character kids. . . . For Ron it's all work. Plain and simple, he's worked at his game," Martelli said. "He's been the most-improved player on our team, voted by the coaching staff, three years in a row.

"Freshman year he doesn't start, most-improved player. Sophomore year, he's the sixth man of the year in the Atlantic Ten, most-improved player on our team. Last year he was third-team all-league in a great, great league and he still gets most-improved. He'd be a candidate even for this year. I'm happy for him."

In the winner's bracket, No. 5 Oklahoma State defeated Butler, 69-67, and No. 21 Memphis topped LSU, 76-69.

That sets up an Oklahoma State-Memphis title game Sunday night. It's a rematch of last week's 101-80 OSU victory over the Tigers in Stillwater, Okla.