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The St. John’s Red Storm will plan to wreak havoc on the road as they travel to Milwaukee to take on the seventh-ranked Marquette Golden Eagles. Let’s check out our College Basketball odds series where our St. John’s-Marquette prediction and pick will be revealed. Entering play with a 14-9 record and a dead-even 6-6 mark […]

St. John’s basketball coach Rick Pitino is offering some suggestions to help fix the game of basketball. Pitino would like to see a salary cap implemented in college basketball for the power 5 conferences, per his social media. Pitino is suggesting a salary cap of  $1.5 to $2 million for the Big East along with […]

The No.1 ranked UConn Huskies travel to Madison Square Garden to take on Rick Pitino and the St John’s Red Storm. The teams faced off in December, with UConn escaping with a 69-65 victory. It was the sixth time in seven games that St John’s covered the spread against the Huskies. It is time to […]

It is a Big East battle as St. John’s faces Xavier. It is time to continue our College Basketball odds series with a St. John’s- Xavier prediction, pick, and how-to-watch. St. John’s enters the game sitting at 13-7 on the year, and 5-4 in Big East play. They started conference play strong, winning four of their […]

Villanova and St. John’s will face off for the second time in three weeks when the Wildcats visit the Red Storm. The Johnnies upset Villanova as 3.5-point underdogs, adding to the Wildcats’ woes this season. It is time to continue our men’s college basketball odds series with a Villanova-St. John’s prediction, pick, and how-to-watch. The […]

Ranked 17th in the nation, Shaka Smart and the Marquette Golden Eagles take on Rick Pitino’s St. John’s Red Storm in this important Big East matchup. Below we will continue our college basketball odds series with a Marquette-St. John’s prediction and pick. Shaka Smart had Marquette ranked as high as 6th nationally in the AP […]

St. John’s basketball head coach Rick Pitino will not coach on Tuesday night against Seton Hall due to COVID, per Jon Rothstein of CBS Sports. Rothstein also reports that associate head coach Steve Masiello will step in and replace Pitino as acting head coach Tuesday. St. John’s basketball wants to win the game of course. […]

Two of the top teams in the Big East face off as Creighton hosts St. John’s. It is time to continue our College Basketball odds series with a St. John’s-Creighton prediction, pick, and how-to-watch. St. John’s enters the game sitting at 12-4 on the year. After a rough start, going 2-2 with losses to Michigan […]

It’s a Big East matchup when the Xavier Musketeers travel to New York to take on the St John’s Red Storm. It is time to continue our college basketball odds series with a Xavier-St John’s prediction, pick, and how-to-watch. Xavier went through a rough patch at the start of December, losing three straight games, with […]

St. John’s Basketball head coach Rick Pitino hasn’t taken a liking to the latest NCAA proposal granting different rules to schools with higher resources compared to the rest of the Division I schools. “So let me understand this latest proposal. Basically low to mid majors will now become like football’s 1AA & no March Madness. […]

It is a Big East against Big 12 battle as St. John’s faces West Virginia. It is time to continue our College Basketball odds series with a St. John’s-West Virginia prediction, pick, and how to watch. St. John’s enters the game sitting at 4-2 on the year, and winners of two straight. the only two […]

The Michigan basketball team came into Madison Square Garden Monday on a two-game winning streak, going up against the coach that beat them in the 2013 NCAA Basketball Tournament final, Rick Pitino. The 71-year-old Pitino signed a six-year deal to coach the Red Storm back in March of this year, and has since focused on […]

Rick Pitino is now the head coach for St. John’s basketball, but he had quite the journey to get there. Pitino’s coaching career began all the way back in 1974. He has coached college and he has coached NBA, and perhaps the most intriguing part of his career came when he started coaching Louisville… after […]

St. John’s basketball center Joel Soriano had an impressive second half in their 90-74 win over Stony Brook on Tuesday. Soriano gave credit to head coach Rick Pitino for motivating him at halftime, per FOX Sports’ John Fanta. Joel Soriano on scoring 16 points in the second half: “Coach Pitino said some things to me. […]

St. John’s basketball fans are eager for the 2023 basketball season to begin as this will be the first season for new head coach Rick Pitino. Pitino had an extremely successful career with Kentucky basketball and Louisville basketball before a scandal at Louisville derailed his career. Pitino then spent a few years coaching in other […]

It was a disappointing 2022-23 season for the St. John’s Red Storm. They finished with an overall record of 18-15 and only 7-13 in Big East Conference play. They managed to knock off Butler in the first round of the Big East Tournament, but lost to Marquette in the second round and missed the NCAA […]

The St. John’s men’s basketball team has been extremely busy this offseason after hiring Rick Pitino as the new head coach. The Red Storm have added a few players via the transfer portal, and the tough days of St. John’s basketball is hopefully in the rearview mirror. Still, even with August almost here, they have […]

Former North Carolina basketball signee Simeon Wilcher has committed to the St. John’s basketball program to play for Rick Pitino, according to Jeff Goodman of Stadium. Simeon Wilcher is a guard and ranked in the top 50 of the 2023 recruiting class, according to 247Sports. It is a big get for the St. John’s basketball […]

Rick Pitino is changing the culture in St. John’s basketball squad. He is now only left with double-double machine Joel Soriano and rarely-used forward Drissa Traore. The Red Storm experienced a purge as Pitino’s coaching style forced most players to enter the transfer portal. The new St. John’s basketball coach predicted that his team would […]

When Rick Pitino took the St. John’s basketball job, he was adamant that he could overhaul the roster and win immediately. Now, it seems increasingly likely that he was right. On Friday, St. John’s landed star University of Pennsylvania transfer Jordan Dingle, the second-highest scorer in college basketball nation last year and one of the […]

The St. John’s men’s basketball team has had a busy offseason. It began with firing Mike Anderson and then immediately landing NCAA legend Rick Pitino as the new head coach. Then, the Red Storm landed quite a few players via the transfer portal in a bit of a program facelift. However, now issues are arising […]

Former UMass guard RJ Luis committed to the St. John’s basketball program, according to a Sunday tweet from NYT Sports Basketball Insider Adam Zagoria. A former 3-star recruit out of Miami, Fla., Luis initially committed to UMass over offers from Temple, Kansas State, Rutgers, VCU and St. Bonaventure, among others, according to 247Sports. He joined a 2022 Minutemen […]

Senior guard Nahiem Alleyne was a key contributor off the bench for the UConn Huskies in their run to the national title in 2023, and now he will be a member of the Huskies’ Big East conference rival in the St. John’s Red Storm, he announced on Twitter. https://twitter.com/Nahiem10/status/1647738313791488003?s=20 St. John’s basketball head coach Rick […]

For years, the balance of power in college basketball was so strongly tipped in the coach’s favor. They could make a long-term commitment to a program and then abruptly leave for a better offer. Those players who that coach recruited were left utterly powerless. Now, however, the modern transfer rules have changed everything. Yet, St. […]

After months of college basketball, the 2022-23 season is officially over. The UConn Huskies took home their fifth title after defeating the San Diego Aztecs in the championship game on Monday. Now, programs are already thinking about the 2023-24 season with their new recruits and transfer additions. One player who could make some noise in […]

The UConn Huskies have won the national championship in men’s basketball, and new St. John’s basketball coach Rick Pitino took to Twitter to congratulate the Huskies on their fifth national championship in program history. “Much respect goes out to the UConn Huskies,” Rick Pitino said on Twitter. “You dominated at both ends of the floor […]

After weeks of speculation, St. John’s officially hired Rick Pitino as its new head coach last week, which UConn head coach Dan Hurley sees as a plus for the Big East Conference. Pitino takes over for Mike Anderson, who was fired last month following a four-season stint as the Red Storm’s head coach. Anderson guided […]

There may still be another three games left in the college basketball season with UCONN, Miami, San Diego State and FAU still vying for the national championship, but the coach carousel has already more or less stopped spinning for the year. Since the end of the regular season earlier this month, over 50 schools have […]

Rick Pitino indicated that there would be players on the way out of the St. John’s basketball program, and we learned that the first three leaving are Kolby King, AJ Storr and O’Mar Stanley, according to Joe Tipton of on3 sports. AJ Storr started many games for the St. John’s basketball team, and averaged 8.8 […]

After a brief exodus from college basketball due to NCAA violations at Louisville, Rick Pitino made his return to the NCAA at Iona in 2020. After three seasons at Iona, Pitino is back at a high-major school having accepted the head coaching job at St. John’s following Iona’s March Madness loss in the first round. […]

Next year, all eyes will be on Utopia Parkway and Rick Pitino in his first season as head coach of St. John’s basketball. Although Pitino has a difficult road ahead of him to revive a moribund St. John’s program, it’s a dream pairing between coach and school—Pitino is the New York-iest coach in college basketball […]

Rick Pitino and St. Johns agreed to make him the next head coach of the St. Johns Mens Basketball team for the next six years. After his introductory press conference, he spoke about his past scandals, reports ON3’s Nick Schultz. “One thing I can tell you is I’ve made my mistakes. But I’ve always run […]

St. John’s basketball introduced Rick Pitino as its new head coach, and he was blunt about what his approach will be when it comes to managing the roster. “A lot of players probably won’t be back on this team, because they’re probably not a good fit for me,” Rick Pitino said, via Jaden Daly of […]

Rick Pitino has accepted the head coaching job with the St. John’s basketball program, but he immediately took to Twitter to bid farewell and thank everyone from his time with the Iona basketball program. He started with a heartfelt message to the school president and athletic director. “Thank you from the bottom of my heart […]

Iona University’s Rick Pitino is a Gael no longer; after meeting with St. John’s basketball officials on Sunday, he is in agreement on a six-year contract to become the Red Storm’s next head coach, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski and Pete Thamel. Pitino is meeting with Iona basketball players to inform them of his intention […]

Mike Anderson was fired as the head coach of the St. John’s Basketball program on Mar. 10, and he is planning to file an arbitration lawsuit against the school after he was terminated “for cause,” according to ESPN’s Myron Medcalf. Anderson believes that he has been wrongfully terminated, and per his contract, he would have […]

The Iona Gaels are preparing for their first-round matchup in the NCAA Tournament with the UConn Huskies, but rumors speculating about head coach Rick Pitino bolting for the open head coaching role at St. John’s have garnered a lot of attention, and he was asked about those rumors today. “I don’t know,” Rick Pitino said, […]

On Thursday, theSt. John’s men’s basketball team nearly pulled off a giant upset against Marquette in the Big East Tournament. Unfortunately, their upset attempt came up two points short, and head coach Mike Anderson was fired on Friday, according to Jeff Goodman of Stadium. This move has thrown Rick Pitino right into the driver’s seat to […]

The St. John’s Red Storm take on the Georgetown Hoyas. Check out our college basketball odds series for our St. John’s Georgetown prediction and pick. Find out how to watch St. John’s Georgetown. The St. John’s Red Storm are in a position where they need to build rhythm and momentum for the Big East Tournament, […]