St. John's Red Storm men's basketball

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St. John's Red Storm
2012–13 St. John's Red Storm men's basketball team
St. John's Red Storm athletic logo

University St. John's University
Conference Big East
Location New York City, NY
Head coach Steve Lavin (4th year)
Arena Carnesecca Arena, Madison Square Garden
(Capacity: 6,008, 19,763)
Nickname Red Storm

Johnnies

Colors Red and White

             


Uniforms
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Home jersey
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Team colours
Home
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Away jersey
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Team colours
Away
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Alternate jersey
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Team colours
Alternate
NCAA Tournament runner up
1952
NCAA Tournament Final Four
1952, 1985
NCAA Tournament Elite Eight
1951, 1952, 1979, 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
Conference tournament champions
1983, 1986, 2000
Conference regular season champions
1980, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1992

The St. John's Red Storm men's basketball team represents the St. John's University in Queens, New York. The team participates in the Big East Conference. The men’s coach Norm Roberts was fired on March 19, 2010. Steve Lavin was named head coach on March 30, 2010.

On March 13th 2011, they were selected to play in the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2002.

With 1724 total wins, St. John's was ranked #7 on the List of teams with the most victories in NCAA Division I men's college basketball.

Coaching history [edit]

Overall Conference
Name Years Won-Lost Pct. Won-Lost Pct. Note
J. Chestnut 1907-08 4-8 .333
P. Joseph Kersey 1908-09 9-6 .600
Harry A. Fisher 1909-10 15-5 .750
Claude Allen 1910-11, 1912-14 33-19 .635
Joseph O'Shea 1911-12, 1914-17 43-27 .614
John Crenny 1918-21, 1922-27 105-86 .550
Ed Kelleher 1921-22 10-11 .476
James Freeman 1927-36 177-31 .851
Joe Lapchick 1936-47, 1956-65 334-130 .720 Basketball Hall of Fame
Frank McGuire 1947-52 102-36 .739 Final Four 1952, Basketball Hall of Fame
Al DeStefano 1952-56 49-39 .563
Lou Carnesecca 1965-70, 1973-92 526-200 .725 139-80 .635 Final Four in 1985, Big East Regular season champions 1980, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1992, Basketball Hall of Fame
Frank Mulzoff 1970-73 56-27 .675
Brian Mahoney 1992-96 56-58 .491 31-47 .397
Fran Fraschilla 1996-98 57-36 .613 35-24 .593
Mike Jarvis 1998-2003 66-60 .524 57-36 .613 Big East tournament champions in 2000
National Invitational Tournament champions in 2003 (later vacated)
Kevin Clark 2003-04 2-17 .105 1-15 .064
Norm Roberts 2004-10 81-101 .445 32-70 .313
Steve Lavin 2010- 21-12 .636 12-6 .667