Girardi led the NHL this season with 125 blocked shots, just under three per game.
New York defenseman Andrew MacDonald entered Thursday's action with a league-high 114 blocked shots.
Blocked shots have been a good indicator of whether the Knicks are going to win or lose.
Sampson had 12 points and Phil Greene added 10 for the Red Storm, who finished with 10 blocked shots.
Saturday was a smooth exhibition of the player's range dunks, rebounds, blocked shots, altered jumpers and a fearlessness chasing down loose balls.
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Evans had eight rebounds, four assists, four blocked shots and a steal.
In basketball, Los Angeles Lakers center Shaquille O'Neal is tops with a score of 49.4, based on points, assists, steals and blocked shots.
The 6-foot-11 Dieng averaged 10.3 points, 10.1 rebounds and 2.6 blocked shots in leading Louisville to a share of the regular season title.
Last season, the junior was the MAC's only player to rank among the top-three in conference in scoring, rebounding, field-goal percentage and blocked shots.
John's freshman Chris Obekpa, who leads the nation in blocked shots at 4.6 per game, had five to give him 96 for the season.
C. native Julian Gamble had 10 rebounds and four blocked shots.
Jennings scored 31 points and had 11 assists, Ersan Ilyasova had 12 rebounds and Larry Sanders had 12 points, 13 rebounds and five blocked shots for Milwaukee.
The team returns star forward, junior Javon McCrea, who was the MAC's only player to rank among the top-three in conference in scoring, rebounding, field-goal percentage and blocked shots.
Plus, blocked shots often are collected by the penalty killers and sent down the ice with impunity, killing precious seconds until the power-play team can get it back and attack again.
Not having James on the floor showed immediately as Georgia turned it over on its next two possession, helped by a pair of blocked shots by Jemerigbe, the second with 51 seconds left.
The largest crowd ever for a women's game at West Virginia saw Griner finish with 28 points, 10 rebounds and 10 blocked shots, and the Lady Bears built a big early lead in defeating the Mountaineers 80-49 on Saturday night.
Once more, Kentucky was elevated by its 6-foot, 10 inch freshman Anthony Davis, who had 18 points, 14 rebounds, five blocked shots and concluded the game by heaving the ball in the air, pointing to the court and exclaiming, Maximus-like, "This is my stage!"
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He made his first seven shots, and the fact that he had 37 points before notching any other statistic of note no rebounds, assists, steals or blocked shots until the third quarter let everyone in the building know that he was all about a scoring spree.
He turned aside all 26 shots he faced, receiving a boost from a group that blocked 17 shots before they even got to the net.
The long arms of the Orange also have blocked 25 shots and nabbed 33 steals.
Davis scored 18 points, collected 14 rebounds and blocked five shots, all game highs.
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She blocked seven shots against Texas Tech, giving her 30 in the last four games.
Before this season, only three players who attempted at least 500 field-goals in a season had blocked-shots rates above 15%.
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But last weekend, he blocked 10 shots against North Carolina State and then poured in 15 points against North Carolina and its NBA-ready front line.
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He tied Tom Barrasso's franchise record for career playoff shutouts and received a boost from a group that blocked 17 shots before they got to the net.
The Orange forced 19 turnovers, blocked 10 shots, and limited the Hoosiers to 33 percent shooting while holding them to their lowest scoring output of the season.
Howard scored 16 points on 8 of 14 shooting, blocked four shots and grabbed 21 rebounds, the fourth time this season he's had 20 or more rebounds.
The Rangers blocked 27 shots (three times as many as Washington did) in 60 minutes that saw them carry out coach John Tortorella's two-pronged philosophy of edgy defense and aggressive forechecking to perfection.
In the first half alone on Saturday he blocked two shots, grabbed seven rebounds and scored six points, all while providing the Wolverines' only muscle under the basket (on offense and defense) amid a forest of Syracuse players.
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