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Benjamin Hochman

Benjamin Hochman: SLU's Javonte Perkins finding footing after knee surgery, ankle injury

Sometimes, Javonte Perkins still is Javonte Perkins.

"Yeah, I'm still me," Perkins said with a smile, in reference to his back-to-back games of 27 and 18 points. "It was good to show everybody that — hey, I can still do it."

Once a take-over-the-game guy, St. Louis U.'s Perkins missed last season because of knee surgery — and has sure missed a lot of shots this season. But he recently scored the jaw-dropping 27 at George Washington (with an eye-popping 11-for-16 performance from the field). The following game, again on the road, he totaled 18 against Loyola-Chicago.

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