| St. John's Red Storm men's basketball | ||||
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| University | St. John's University | |||
| First season | 1907 | |||
| All-time record | 1,942–1,098 (.639) | |||
| Head coach | Rick Pitino (2nd season) | |||
| Conference | Big East | |||
| Location | New York City, New York | |||
| Arena | Carnesecca Arena, Madison Square Garden (capacity: 5,602, 19,812) | |||
| Nickname | Red Storm, Johnnies | |||
| Colors | Red and white[1] | |||
| Uniforms | ||||
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| Pre-tournament Premo-Porretta champions | ||||
| 1911 | ||||
| Pre-tournament Helms champions | ||||
| 1911 | ||||
| NCAA tournament runner-up | ||||
| 1952 | ||||
| NCAA tournament Final Four | ||||
| 1952, 1985 | ||||
| NCAA tournament Elite Eight | ||||
| 1951, 1952, 1979, 1985, 1991, 1999 | ||||
| NCAA tournament Sweet Sixteen | ||||
| 1951, 1952, 1967, 1969, 1979, 1983, 1985, 1991, 1999 | ||||
| NCAA tournament appearances | ||||
| 1951, 1952, 1961, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002*, 2011, 2015, 2019 | ||||
| Conference tournament champions | ||||
| 1983, 1986, 2000 | ||||
| Conference regular season champions | ||||
| 1980, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1992 NJ-NY 7: 1978 Metro NY: 1943, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1958, 1961, 1962 | ||||
| NIT tournament champions | ||||
| 1943, 1944, 1959, 1965, 1989, 2003* | ||||
| * - vacated by NCAA | ||||
The St. John's Red Storm men's basketball team represents St. John's University located in Queens, New York. The team participates in the Big East Conference, where it is a founding member of the league. As of the end of the 2022–23 season, St. John's ranked ninth with 1,922 total wins among NCAA Division I teams. St. John's has appeared in 30 NCAA tournaments, most recently appearing in 2019. The Red Storm's best finish in the NCAA tournament came in 1952 when they were NCAA runner-ups and made the Final Four. St. John's also made a Final Four appearance in 1985. St. John's is coached by Rick Pitino.[2]
The team has reached the NCAA tournament twenty-eight (28) times, boasts two John R. Wooden Award winners, 11 consensus All-Americans, 6 members of the College Basketball Hall of Fame, and has sent 59 players to the NBA. The school is also the 8th winningest team in all of college basketball.[3]
St. John's is the seventh-most-winningest program in college basketball history (1,686 wins),[4] St. John's boasts the seventh-most NCAA tournament appearances (27), two Wooden Award winners as national player of the year, 11 consensus All-Americans, 6 members of the College Basketball Hall of Fame, and has sent 59 players to the NBA. However, St. John's currently holds the NCAA Division I record for most NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship appearances without a championship.[citation needed] The Red Storm play most of their home games at Madison Square Garden, "The World's Most Famous Arena", while their early non-conference games are held at Carnesecca Arena on the St. John's campus in Queens.[5] St. John's University holds the second best winning percentage for a New York City school in the NCAA basketball tournament (second to City College of New York, which won the 1950 NCAA Division I Championship[6]). St. John's has the most NIT appearances with 27, the most championship wins with 6, although they were stripped of one due to an NCAA infraction.[7] The 1910–11 St. John's team finished the season with a 14–0 record[8] and was retroactively named the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and the Premo-Porretta Power Poll.[9][10] In 2008, St. John's celebrated its 100th year of college basketball.
On February 21, 2011, the men's basketball team was voted into the top 25 in the AP and ESPN Coaches poll. This was the first time the team had been ranked since the end of the season in 2000.
The basketball team is the most popular collegiate basketball program in New York City and has a world-wide following. There are numerous fan forums that support the basketball program, in addition to all of the university's teams. The most popular is redmen.com which often leads the mainstream sports media in breaking news regarding its sports teams.
- ^ "Primary Colors". St. John's University Athletics Style Guide (PDF). June 21, 2018. Retrieved March 9, 2019.
- ^ "St. John's Names Hall of Famer Rick Pitino Head Men's Basketball Coach". redstormsports.com. St. John's University Athletics. March 20, 2023. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
- ^ Wilco, Daniel (June 24, 2019). "College basketball's 9 winningest teams". NCAA.com.
- ^ http://web1.ncaa.org/web_files/stats/m_basketball_RB/Reports/alltimewinningest.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "St. John's RedStorm Sports -- We are St. John's -- Traditions -- Traditions". Archived from the original on April 16, 2009. Retrieved December 2, 2009.
- ^ "ESPN Classic - Explosion: 1951 scandals threaten college hoops". espn.com. November 19, 2003. Retrieved April 16, 2023.
- ^ "St. John's gets two years of probation". ESPN.com. May 11, 2006. Retrieved April 16, 2023.
- ^ "St. John's season-by-season results". sports-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. 2014. Retrieved May 12, 2014.
- ^ "NCAA Division I Mens Basketball – NCAA Division I Champions". Rauzulu's Street. 2004. Retrieved May 12, 2014.
- ^ ESPN, ed. (2009). ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia: The Complete History of the Men's Game. New York, NY: ESPN Books. p. 532. ISBN 978-0-345-51392-2.