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Maybe coming off the bench will suit Ian Jackson.

It didn’t seem to bother him Thursday night.

The Bronx native and North Carolina transfer said all the right things about his role as a reserve on Wednesday, and then he played like it could fit him, notching a St. John’s team-tying-high 20 points in the 14th-ranked Johnnies’ 97-49 destruction of Bucknell at Carnesecca Arena.

Jackson began to resemble the player who was such a big-time high school recruit, attacking and not hesitating, a promising sign for St .John’s ahead of what is a monster week starting on Monday in Las Vegas.

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