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Ahead of conference tournament week, the Red Storm made a nice leap in the rankings. St. John’s were ranked lucky No. 13 in the AP Top 25 men’s basketball poll, moving up five spots following wins over Georgetown and Seton Hall. The Red Storm were also 13th in this week’s USA Today Coaches Poll. This […]
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Zuby Ejiofor picked up the first of what could be multiple major awards over the next few weeks. The Red Storm’s star center was named the Big East Defensive Player of the Year on Monday afternoon. This comes after Ejiofor was unanimously selected to the All-Big East First Team and the All-Big East Defensive Team […]
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For the first time in program history, St. John’s have won the Big East regular season title in back-to-back seasons, and they won’t be sharing it either time. The Red Storm already clinched a share of the Big East regular season title following their 72-65 win over Seton Hall on Friday night, then won the […]
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It was never going to be a walk in the park. If St. John’s were going to clinch another Big East regular season crown, they were going to need to scrap for it against Seton Hall. In front of a madhouse crowd of 9,000 at the Prudential Center, the Pirates dragged the Red Storm into […]
4 days ago | 3 reads
Welcome to the thread for Friday’s St. John’s men’s basketball game against Seton Hall. Please be respectful in the comment section and do not share any illegal streams of the game. You can follow updates of this game on Rumble in the Garden’s official X account (formerly Twitter) at @rumbleSBN or on Rumble in the […]
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After the Senior Night ceremony, at which five seniors, Zuby Ejiofor, Bryce Hopkins, Dillon Mitchell, Oziyah Sellers, and Handje Tamba were recognized with family members present, the Johnnies left the court. When they returned, Zuby Ejiofor led them into a layup drill. No dunk, no reverse layup, just a simple finger roll in the style […]
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Zuby Ejiofor has experienced plenty of winning over these last three seasons. Some of those victories have been more dramatic than they ever needed to be. So there couldn’t have been a more fitting swan-song for Ejiofor and the Red Storm’s senior class than St. John’s rallying from a 12-point deficit to defeat Georgetown in […]
6 days ago | 0 reads
Welcome to the thread for Tuesday’s St. John’s men’s basketball game against Georgetown. Please be respectful in the comment section and do not share any illegal streams of the game. You can follow updates of this game on Rumble in the Garden’s official X account (formerly Twitter) at @rumbleSBN or on Rumble in the Garden’s […]
7 days ago | 1 read
Senior Day is always a bittersweet occasion, but it will mean so much more when St. John’s bids farewell to one of the program’s greatest players of the 21st century. Along with five other seniors, Zuby Ejiofor will play in his final regular-season home game this Tuesday night against Georgetown (7 p.m., Peacock). This won’t […]
7 days ago | 1 read
In college basketball, three days are long enough to fall hard and then rise just as high. On February 25th, St. John’s was handily defeated by Connecticut in a 32-point laugher. Three days later, Villanova scored the first basket of the game, but then the Johnnies completely took over, and the Wildcats also fell to […]
8 days ago | 2 reads
Saturday night’s blowout of Villanova wasn’t enough to cancel out St. John’s’ putrid defeat to UConn during the week in the eyes of the AP poll voters. The Red Storm fell three spots to No. 18 in the final regular season AP Top 25 men’s basketball poll. They also fell two spots to No. 17 […]
8 days ago | 2 reads
Kevin Willard didn’t have to imagine what the inside of the St. John’s basketball practice facility looked like in the days following their embarrassing 72-40 loss to UConn. He’s lived it. As an assistant coach for ten years under Rick Pitino when he led the Boston Celtics and Louisville men’s basketball, Willard experienced plenty of […]
9 days ago | 2 reads
There was so much uncertainty about how St. John’s would respond to their unspeakably awful 72-40 loss to UConn in the lead-up to Saturday’s game against Villanova. By the end of the night, it appeared like the result was always inevitable. As he always seems to pull off following a terrible loss, Rick Pitino worked […]
10 days ago | 2 reads
Welcome to the thread for Saturday’s St. John’s men’s basketball matchup against Villanova. Please be respectful in the comment section and do not share any illegal streams of the game. You can follow updates of this game on Rumble in the Garden’s official X account (formerly Twitter) at @rumbleSBN or on Rumble in the Garden’s […]
10 days ago | 3 reads
There is no sugar-coating it: St. John’s got their behinds kicked against UConn. The readers of this site are already well-aware of the grotesque details of Wednesday night’s 72-40 clubbing, and the inescapable tomato flinging from normally college basketball-agnostic sports media outlets for their efforts affirmed that, but what’s done is done and memories from […]
11 days ago | 1 read
Wednesday night’s game had all of the trappings of a closely-contested battle of ranked heavyweights at the top of the Big East. No. 15 St. John’s was riding the high of a 13-game winning streak, while sixth-ranked UConn was looking for revenge after their defeat to the Johnnies three weeks ago. What instead transpired inside […]
13 days ago | 1 read
Welcome to the thread for Wednesday’s St. John’s men’s basketball matchup against UConn. Please be respectful in the comment section and do not share any illegal streams of the game. You can follow updates of this game on Rumble in the Garden’s official X account (formerly Twitter) at @rumbleSBN or on Rumble in the Garden’s […]
14 days ago | 1 read
The Johnnies brought home a twelve-game win streak to Madison Square Garden for a rematch with the Creighton Blue Jays. Fans were cautiously optimistic as the Blue Jays had recently upended the Connecticut Huskies in Storrs. With several long-range bombers led by leading scorer, Josh Dix, the Red Storm would have to handle screens and […]
15 days ago | 4 reads
After two consecutive weeks of standing put at No. 17, St. John’s finally enjoyed upward movement in the AP Top 25 men’s basketball poll. The Red Storm jumped two spots to No. 15 in the latest poll released on Monday afternoon, overtaking Texas Tech and North Carolina after they suffered road losses to unranked teams […]
15 days ago | 1 read
Creighton’s road upset over fifth-ranked UConn caught the attention of the college basketball world. Although this year hasn’t gone to plan for a preseason top-25 team, that signature victory over the Huskies showed they can still beat the Big East’s best. The Red Storm weren’t letting that happen to them on Saturday afternoon. St. John’s […]
17 days ago | 3 reads
Welcome to the thread for Saturday’s St. John’s men’s basketball matchup against Creighton. Please be respectful in the comment section and do not share any illegal streams of the game. You can follow updates of this game on Rumble in the Garden’s official X account (formerly Twitter) at @rumbleSBN or on Rumble in the Garden’s […]
18 days ago | 2 reads
St. John’s was fortunate to enjoy a mostly healthy season for their major contributors up until this point. Besides an early-season calf injury to Dylan Darling that only sidelined him for one game, the Red Storm’s rotation has been at full strength. That availability has helped them carve out an ongoing 12-game winning streak. However, […]
18 days ago | 1 read
An ex-Red Storm coach’s days are numbered at his latest coaching stop. After an 11-17 start, San Diego announced they will part ways with head coach Steve Lavin at the end of this season. Lavin will still coach the team in their remaining three regular-season games, the WCC tournament, and any potential postseason. He had […]
19 days ago | 2 reads
For a moment, it appeared that not one, but both of the Big East’s superpowers would be blindsided on Wednesday evening. Earlier that night, Creighton walked out of an incandescent Gampel Pavilion with a convincing 91-84 win over No. 5 UConn. Hundreds of miles away in Milwaukee, St. John’s was also placed on the brink […]
20 days ago | 5 reads
Welcome to the thread for Wednesday’s St. John’s men’s basketball matchup against Marquette. Please be respectful in the comment section and do not share any illegal streams of the game. You can follow updates of this game on Rumble in the Garden’s official X account (formerly Twitter) at @rumbleSBN or on Rumble in the Garden’s […]
20 days ago | 3 reads