St. John’s Red Storm head coach Rick Pitino’s expectations remain high entering the 2026-27 college basketball season. He is beginning his 39th season as a head coach and his fourth as the head coach of the Red Storm.
The St. John’s Red Storm are set to kick off the season on Monday against Monmouth University, and the hope will be that this is the start of a special season. Since Rick Pitino came in as the head coach of the Red Storm, the narrative around the program has completely changed.
With the season set to start soon for the St. John’s Red Storm, the team hopes the upcoming campaign will be a special one. Following two straight seasons in which the team won the Big East Tournament, the Red Storm are looking to make it three straight.
The transfer portal for men’s college basketball is essential to the game and each team’s success. In four of the past five seasons, the national champion had added at least one player ranked from the top-20 transfers list from the prior offseason, and the St.
The St. John’s Red Storm are getting set for the start of the season soon, and they will be hosting Monmouth University to kick things off. With high expectations
In an exhibition game against Texas, St. John's basketball forward Tounde Yessoufou showed why he has the potential to be an All-American.
The St. John’s Red Storm will be starting up the season against Monmouth University next week, and in their final exhibition game, the team seemingly clicked. With a tough summer regarding eligibility, the Red Storm were a bit behind the eight-ball in terms of their preparation for the season.
Although St. John’s survived last week’s four-overtime gauntlet against Rutgers with a win, they were unsatisfied with their performance and knew they needed to take massive strides to contend with seventh-ranked Texas in their final tune-up.
The St. John’s Red Storm have done a wonderful job of restocking talent on the roster via the transfer portal since Rick Pitino took over as head coach.
Over the past few years, Rick Pitino and the Red Storm have largely sat out high school recruiting races, choosing to build their roster through the transfer portal with experienced veterans.
The St. John’s Red Storm has a lot of new players on its roster for the 2026-27 men’s college basketball season. Only two players who averaged at least 10 minutes per game from last season’s Sweet 16 squad are back: guard Ian Jackson and center Ruben Prey.
Jeff Borzello and Paul Biancardi of ESPN made a list ranking the impact of 67 college basketball newcomers, with the St. John's Red Storm featured prominently.
The 2026-27 men’s college basketball season for the St. John’s Red Storm is going to be impacted as much by off-the-court decisions as by how the team performs on the hardwood.
Since Rick Pitino took over as head coach of the St. John’s Red Storm, he has done a great job of stockpiling talent year in and year out. However, most of that talent has come via the transfer portal.
St. John’s Red Storm men's basketball Star Babacar Sané is still waiting to hear if he will be cleared to play NCAA Basketball, but he is still putting in the work to prepare for the season.
With the start of the college basketball season right around the corner for the St. John’s Red Storm, the team now knows where they will be ranked to start the campaign in the AP Poll. As the first game of the season gets closer for St.
The St. John’s Red Storm basketball team opened its exhibition schedule with a comfortable victory Wednesday, but Rick Pitino saw plenty that needs fixing before the regular season begins.
The St. John’s Red Storm are getting set for the start of the upcoming 2026-27 season. They will be kicking things off with an exhibition game against Drexel, and the regular season will be right around the corner.
Ejiofor averaged 16.3 points, 7.3 rebounds, 3.5 assists, 2.1 blocks and 1.2 steals per game this past season as he helped St. John's become outright Big East regular-season champions and Big East Tournament champions.
The pixie dust wore off on Dylan Darling in the final seconds of St. John’s Sweet 16 game Friday against Duke.
One of the most highly anticipated games in recent memory is set to take place on Friday night when the five-seed St. John's takes on one-seed Duke in the Sweet 16.
The No. 2-seeded Connecticut Huskies and No. 5 St. John’s Red Storm may be headed toward a fourth meeting of the season, this time in what would be the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament.
One of the more controversial decisions finalized by the NCAA Tournament selection committee this past Sunday involved the St. John’s Red Storm being chosen as the No. 5 seed in the East.
When St. John's hired Rick Pitino prior to the 2023-24 season they were hoping one of college basketball's most successful coaches could work his magic and return the program to relevance. And so he has.
The St. John’s Red Storm will begin their 2026 Big East Tournament journey when they face the rival Providence Friars at noon ET on Thursday, but even with postseason play at the forefront for St. John's, it sounds like the school has other things on its mind as well.
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