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St. John's Redmen men's basketball

St. John's Red Storm
2016–17 St. John's Red Storm men's basketball team
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University St. John's University
All-time record 1,817-999 (.645)
Conference Big East
Location New York City, NY
Head coach Chris Mullin (2nd year)
Arena Carnesecca Arena,
Madison Square Garden
(Capacity: 5,602, 19,812)
Nickname Red Storm, Red Men, 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
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
*Vacated by NCAA
Conference tournament champions
1983, 1986, 2000
Conference regular season champions
1943, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1958, 1961, 1962, 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. They are currently coached by Chris Mullin, a Hall of Fame player who is inarguably the school's greatest-ever player, who succeeded Steve Lavin after the 2014–15 season.

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

As of the end of the 2016–2017 season, St. John's has 1,817 total wins, which put them at #9 on the List of teams with the most victories in NCAA Division I men's college basketball.

The St. John's men's basketball team played its first game on December 6, 1907, losing to New York University and registering its first win in program history against Adelphi University on January 3, 1908. Just three years later, the 1910–11 St. John's basketball team went on to have an undefeated 14–0 season coached by former track and field Olympian Claude Allen, for which the team was later honored by the Helms Foundation as national champions.

Twenty years later, former St.John's player James "Buck" Freeman was hired as the coach of the basketball team and in his first four years from 1927 to 1931 had a historic 85–8 record. The 1929–30 and 1930–31 teams were known as the "Wonder Five", made up of Matty Begovich, Mac Kinsbrunner, Max Posnack, Allie Schuckman, and Jack "Rip" Gerson, who together helped revolutionize the game of basketball and made St. John's the marquee team in New York City. On January 19, 1931, the Wonder Five team was a part of the first college basketball triple-header at Madison Square Garden in a charity game which saw St. John's beat CCNY by a score 17–9. Freeman finished his coaching career with a record of 177–31 for an .850 winning percentage.


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