St. John’s beat Creighton in the championship game of the Big East men’s college basketball tournament on Saturday, March 15, ...

Saturday night’s second half was this remarkable season neatly packed into 20 brilliant minutes. A jam-packed Garden full of St. John’s fans on their feet, making the building sound like it ...

Rick Pitino and RJ Luis were rewarded Wednesday for St. John's best season in decades, winning Big East Coach of the Year and ...

1 seed St. John's defeated No. 2 seed ... Jamiya Neal has a team-high nine points and five rebounds. Ryan Kalkbrenner, the four-time Big East’s Defensive Player of the Year, has four points ...

which clinched the fourth Big East Tournament title in school history. He scored 27 of his game-high 29 points during a second half in which St. John’s outscored Creighton, 57-38, and at one ...

This has frequently been St. John’s time slot in the Big East Tournament over the last decade. High noon on quarterfinal Thursday — except the circumstances were very different this time.

St. John’s ... in the Big East Tournament. Neil Best first worked at Newsday in 1982, returned in 1985 after a detour to Alaska and has been here since, specializing in high schools, college ...

But St. John’s keeps overcoming its shortcomings. “We do whatever it takes to win,” Aaron Scott said. “We stayed together when we were down.” St. John's is back in the Big East ...

St. John's ran away from Creighton, 82-66, in front of a raucous Madison Square Garden crowd. Creighton center Ryan Kalbrenner scored a team-high 15 points in the final Big East game of his ...