The era of good feelings last but a few scant days before the Orangemen knocked the Redmen black and blue and back to reality. The good news -- DePaul, winless in the Big East, is up next. The bad news -- they may not be winless in conference much longer.

The victory gave Syracuse 20 victories, giving Jim Boeheim his record 31st 20-win season.

Cuse leads the Big East at 48.5 percent shooting and went a season-high 64.9 percent (37-for-57) against SJU.

Eric Devendorf had 17 points, Rick Jackson added 15 on 7-for-8 shooting and Arinze Onuaku had 14 points on 7-for-8 shooting. Jonny Flynn led the Cuse with 21 points.

Paris Horne led SJU with 17 points, albiet it on 6-of-15 shooting, 1-of-6 on threes.

Sean Evans had 13 points, all in the second half, going 5-of-6 from the field.

D.J. Kennedy had 11 points and eight rebounds.

Justin Burrell came off the bench again and had 8 points and four rebounds before fouling out after 27 minutes. he also had six turnovers.

Qunicy Roberts took seven shots in 18 minutes.

Syracuse had a 56-30 point advantage in the paint.

The Red Storm tied their season-high with 12 steals as part of forcing 20 turnovers but committed 19 turnovers of their own, 10 being steals.

SJU was down 39-18 at halftime by shooting 7-of-26 from the field. Meanwhile, Syracuse was 17-of-26. SJU did shoot 51.9 percent in the second half.

St. John's was 11-of-23 from the line, an awesome 47.8 percent.

Norm's Normisms: "Syracuse played exceptionally well; they did a great job of shooting the ball. We didn't defend well in the first half. We defended better to start off the second half and we had opportunities to get back into the game, but we botched some plays. We probably played a little bit too fast and missed some shots we had. We knew it was going to be a physical game and we didn't even match that early on."