St. John's Red Storm Men's Basketball Tickets

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St. John's Red Storm Men's Basketball History

St. John's University played its first men’s basketball game in 1907. In 1910-11, St. John's went 11-0 and were retroactively awarded a national championship by the Helms Athletic Foundation. The Red Storm are five-time champions of the National Invitation Tournament (1943, 1944, 1959, 1965 and 1989) and have also had success in the NCAA tournament, reaching the Final Four in 1952 and 1985 and losing the 1952 final to Kansas.

Lou Carnesecca famously coached St. John's from 1965 to 1992, except for three seasons when he coached the New York Nets of the ABA, and never had a losing season with the team. Since 1979, St. John's basketball has been synonymous with Big East basketball, winning five conference regular-season championships and three Big East tournaments in that span. Behind the play of Chris Mullin, St. John's became one of three Big East teams, along with Villanova and Georgetown, to play in the 1985 Final Four. In 2019, St. John's reached their first NCAA Tournament since 2015.

St. John's Red Storm Team Info

Conference: Big East
Team Colors: Red and white
Team Rivals: Georgetown, Fordham, Villanova, Providence, Seton Hall, Syracuse, Connecticut

St. John's Red Storm at Carnesecca Arena and Madison Square Garden

The St. John's Red Storm splits its home schedule between Carnesecca Arena on the university’s campus in Queens, which opened in 1961 and seats 5,602, and Madison Square Garden in Manhattan, which opened in 1968 and has a capacity of 19,812. The team is coached by Rick Pitino.