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| School Name: | Saint John's University |
| Location: | Queens, New York |
| Arena: | Carnesecca Arena |
| Capacity: | 6,008 |
| Conference: | Big East |
| Head coach: | Steve Lavin |
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. The team wore black jerseys on 3/5/2011 for senior day.
On March 13th 2011, they were selected to play in the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2002.
Coaching history[]
| 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 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- | 21-11 | .656 | |||