Mike Francesa said he saw this red storm coming, over long conversations with Rick Pitino at Saratoga Race Course last summer. But on Tuesday night, he saw it arrive in full force, when the 15th-ranked St. John’s men’s basketball team routed Georgetown, 66-41, to complete a perfect January.

It’s impossible to dispute the impact Rick Pitino has had in his 54-game tenure with St. John’s. The Johnnies were playing as well as anyone last year when the NCAA Tournament decided to treat the Big East like a mid-major. The three games they’ve lost this year have been by five skinny points.

Former Kentucky coach Rick Pitino probably isn't really expecting many folks at Rupp Arena on Saturday to be cheering for John Calipari. "In my time, I dont

For much of the past two decades, St. John’s basketball has struggled to reclaim its former glory. Halfway through the 2024-25 season, that's changing.

St. John's is 7-0 in 2025, making this the program's first unbeaten January in 40 years dating to its last Final Four season in 1985.

One of the biggest questions in college basketball this season has been how Big Blue Nation will respond to John Calipari making his return to Rupp Arena. Some

Maybe you can call some of us the St. John’s LIRR alumni, or the Metro North alumni. Plenty of us really did take the subway, but that nickname was already taken.

Coach Rick Pitino gave his take on the rivalry between Kentucky and Louisville under Mark Pope and Pat Kelsey. The St. John's men's basketball coach shared his opinion in a post on X on Wednesday.

Eight players scored for the Red Storm, on their longest run of consecutive wins in Big East play since 2000. First-place St. John’s (18-3, 9-1) is off to its best start since opening the 1985-86 season 20-2 during the program’s heyday under Hall of Fame coach Lou Carnesecca.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rick Pitino joked that senior guard ... Smith could return as soon as Saturday when Providence visits Madison Square Garden, and that only makes the Red Storm more dangerous.

Call it the Rick Pitino Effect ... The average attendance for a St. John’s game at Madison Square Garden is 14,446, up 22% from the 11,852 it averaged the year before he arrived.

That wasn’t the case for the New Yorkers who asked the people gathered in line outside Madison Square Garden last Saturday about what they were waiting to see. For those readers who have been ...