Johnnies Exit Tourney Despite Heroic Double OT Effort
Kyle Fitzgerald, Assistant Sports Editor
March 24, 2013
St. John’s suffered a crushing 96-90 defeat to Dayton in the first round of the NCAA Women’s Tournament at Carnesecca Arena on Sunday that effectively ended their season. The game extended into two overtimes as the Red Storm (18-13, 11-5) overcame a 13 point deficit, but ran out of gas as the game... Read more »
Johnnies Earn Home NCAA Tourney Game
Kyle Fitzgerald, Staff Writer
March 20, 2013
The St. John’s women’s basketball team will be playing in its fourth consecutive NCAA Tournament after receiving an at-large bid. The No. 10 seeded Red Storm (18-12, 11-5) will face off against No. 7 seeded Dayton at Carnesecca Areana on March 24. The Johnnies finished the regular season with an... Read more »
Pop Goes the Bubble
Kieran Lynch, Features Editor
March 6, 2013
St. John’s entered yesterday’s game fighting for its NCAA tournament life. It exited simply fighting, with any hopes of dancing long gone. The Red Storm, who held a four-point lead going into halftime before being outscored 44-14 in the second half, fell to No. 24 Notre Dame 66-40 at Purcell Pavilion... Read more »
Not Quite March, but Our Time’s Now
Kieran Lynch, Features Editor
January 31, 2013
There was a point last basketball season when I was sitting at Madison Square Garden and thought to myself something along the lines of, ‘this program is headed in the right direction, but I may have seen all the big moments I was destined to see as a freshman in 2010-11.’ Now, it looks like I may... Read more »
Breaking down the Bulldogs
Bill San Antonio, Sports Editor
March 16, 2011
Gonzaga is not your older brother’s No. 11 seed. The Bulldogs, making their 13th-consecutive NCAA tournament, finished the regular season 24-9, winners of the West Coast Conference tournament as well as their last nine games. The meeting will be the fourth between the teams in program college... Read more »
Kennedy to miss NCAA tournament
Bill San Antonio, Sports Editor
March 16, 2011
The St. John’s men’s basketball team will make its first NCAA tournament run since 2002 without a key contributor. Senior guard D.J. Kennedy will miss the tournament after suffering a torn ACL in his right knee during the opening minutes of the Red Storm’s Big East quarterfinal loss... Read more »
WBB in NCAA
Mike Gurnis, Staff Writer
March 16, 2011
For the second consecutive year and the sixth time in program history, the St. John’s women’s basketball team has earned a spot in the NCAA tournament. The Red Storm earned the No. 9 seed in the Spokane region of the tournament, and will take on the No. 8 seed Texas Tech at the Maples... Read more »
Enter San Man
Bill San Antonio, Sports Editor
March 16, 2011
It is impossible to predict just how well the St. John’s men’s basketball team will bounce back from the loss of D.J. Kennedy. Sure, the team played a resilient 35 minutes sans-D.J. against Syracuse in the Big East tournament despite coming up just short at the end, and by every indication... Read more »
