ST. JOHN'S RUMORS & GOSSIP

St. John's pitcher gets pied on broken nose after winning Big East title

The St. John's baseball team won a record seventh Big East Tournament title after defeating South Florida 7-3 in Clearwater, Fla. and is now headed the the NCAA Tournament for the third year in a row. After the game, tournament MVP Matt Carasiti was pied in the face while being interviewed by ESPN but it looked like his teammate Kevin Kilpatrick's celebratory gesture hurt...
Via The Other Paper  |  3 days ago

Cardinal Baseball Team Heading Into The Post-Season With Momentum

Dan McDonnell and the Louisville Cardinal Baseball team claimed their third Big East regular season title over the weekend. Louisville and St. Johns both had 18-9 conference records, but the Cards held the tie-breaker over the Red Storm. St. Johns looked to be in the driver’s seat for the regular season title, but dropped two games to Seton Hall over the weekend, while the Cards...
Via The Cardinal Connect  |  9 days ago

Rutgers, La Tech, St. John's, Duke to play at MSG

Former New York Liberty star Teresa Weatherspoon will return to Madison Square Garden as coach of Louisiana Tech to play Rutgers in the seventh annual Maggie Dixon Classic on Dec. 9. Weatherspoon played for the Liberty from 1997-2003, guiding them to the inaugural WNBA finals in 1997. She's coached the Lady Techsters to winning seasons in each of her first four years at LSU...
Via AP on Fox  |  19 days ago

Look of Champions: Syracuse Flips the Script, Storms into NCAA Tournament

Syracuse.com The cloud of uncertainty that hovered over this Syracuse postseason has dissipated. SU pounded St. Johns into submission 12-4 to take the Big East Championship and the automatic qualifier to the Big Dance on Saturday. Just like the dominant 15-6 semifinal win over Villanova, everything seemed to go right for the Orange. Here are the top 3 ways the SU dominated the Johnnies...
Via Orange Fizz  |  23 days ago

Catching Up With Dwight Hardy

After a stellar standout career at St. Johns University, located in Queens NY, where he averaged 18.3 points under Head Coach Steve Lavin, Dwight Hardy took his talents to Italian club Pistoria where he averages 22.6 points per game. I recently sat down with Dwight to talk about life and basketball.
Via Hoops Addict  |  24 days ago

Wood back with Red Storm

For the second time in the 2012 recruiting cycle, the St. John's Red Storm got a kid to re-commit.
Via scouthoops.scout.com  |  April 30, 2012

Tartamella new St. John's women's basketball coach

Joe Tartamella has been hired to be the women's basketball coach at St. John's on Friday. Tartamella spent the past nine seasons at the school and was the associate head coach for the past three years. The Red Storm reached the NCAA tournament regional semifinals for the first time in school history before falling to Duke. The Red Storm have reached the NCAAs the past three...
Via AP on Fox  |  April 27, 2012

St. John's coach Barnes Arico takes Michigan job

St. John's head coach Kim Barnes Arico has been hired to coach Michigan's basketball team. Barnes Arico coached the Red Storm for the past 10 seasons and guided them to a second-place finish in the Big East this past year, including a victory at Connecticut in February that ended the Huskies' 99-game home winning streak. St. John's advanced to the regional semifinals...
Via AP on Fox  |  April 20, 2012

St. John's Moe Harkless expected to enter 2012 NBA Draft

St. John's has scheduled a press conference for Monday at Madison Square Garden and the New York Daily News is reporting that freshman Moe Harkless is expected to announce that he will apply for the 2012 NBA Draft. Harkless, who was the first big name recruited by head coach Steve Lavin at St. John's, paved the way for Lavin's third-ranked recruiting class last year...
Via The Other Paper  |  March 18, 2012

St. John's women win on sensational last second basket

St. John's fought off a second half charge by Creighton and beat the Bluejays on an amazing coast-to-coast basket by the Red Storm point guard Nadirah McKenith with only :01 left on the clock at the end of a nail biting NCAA Women's first-round matchup. After Carli Tritz of Creighton tied the game at 67-67— by sinking two free throws with 5.4 seconds left— McKenith...
Via The Other Paper  |  March 18, 2012

St. John's Ruins UConn Women's Senior Night With Late Three Pointer

What started out as night of joy for the UConn Huskies women's basketball team as senior Tiffany Hayes and seven team managers were honored on Senior Night, ended in stunning fashion. Shenneika Smith's three-pointer with eight seconds left in the game turned out to be the difference as the St. John's Red Storm upset UConn 57-56 in front of 9,552 at Gampel Pavilion on...
Via Sox and Dawgs  |  February 18, 2012

Thin St. John’s roster gets skinny with Nurideen Lindsey’s departure

During the regular signing period in April, St. John’s raced up the team recruiting rankings, eventually attaining the second ranked class in the country. Pundits looked at the Red Storm roster, with point guard Malik Stith and talented sophomore Dwayne Polee expected to meld with nine touted incoming recruits, and wondered what coach Steve Lavin [...] Related posts: Norvel...
Via Hoopniks  |  December 09, 2011

Sophomore Lindsey to transfer from St. John's

Sophomore guard Nurideen Lindsey, one of seven players in the St. John's rotation this season, plans to transfer at the end of the semester. Red Storm coach Steve Lavin made the announcement Thursday, saying it was a mutually agreed-upon decision. Lindsey, a native of Philadelphia, said his mother's health has been ''up and down due to some past experiences.'...
Via AP on Fox  |  December 08, 2011

Player of the Night (11/9): God's Gift Achiuwa (St. John's)

God's Gift AchiuwaBy Paul Seaver (TheArenaPulse) This post is part of The Arena Pulse's Player of the Night feature.Each morning throughout the 2011-12 season, The Arena Pulse will select and name its "Player of the Night" from the previous evening's action.The college basketball season continued on Wednesday, Nov. 9, with four games featuring teams participating...
Via The Arena Pulse PS  |  November 10, 2011

St. John's Young Guns Begin Era With Impressive Win

The most anticipated St. John's basketball team in over a decade took to the floor at Carnesecca Arena and brought in a new era of pride after beating C.W. Post 110-80 last night in an exhibition game. The Red Storm looked pretty impressive considering three of their 10 scholarship players weren't playing due to academic ineligibility. The highly-rated recruiting class...
Via The Other Paper  |  October 26, 2011
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