St. John's Red Storm men's basketball
2025–26 St. John's Red Storm men's basketball team
University	St. John's University
First season	1907–08; 119 years ago
Athletic director	Ed Kull
Head coach	Rick Pitino 3rd season, 76–24 (.760)
Location	New York, New York
Arena	Carnesecca Arena (5,260) Madison Square Garden (19,812)
NCAA division	Division I
Conference	Big East
Nickname	Red Storm
Colors	Red and white[1]
All-time record	2,044–1,110 (.648)
NCAA tournament record	28–33 (.459)
NCAA Division I tournament runner-up
1952
Other NCAA Division I tournament results Final Four 1952, 1985 Elite Eight 1951, 1952, 1979, 1985, 1991, 1999 Sweet Sixteen 1951, 1952, 1967, 1969, 1979, 1983, 1985, 1991, 1999, 2026 Appearances 1951, 1952, 1961, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002*, 2011, 2015, 2019, 2025, 2026
Pre-tournament Helms national champions
1910–11
NIT champions
1943, 1944, 1959, 1965, 1989, 2003*
Conference tournament champions
ECAC: 1977, 1978 Big East: 1983, 1986, 2000, 2025, 2026
Conference regular-season champions
Metro NY: 1943, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1958, 1961, 1962 Big East: 1980, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1992, 2025, 2026
Uniforms
Home Away Alternate
* vacated by NCAA

The St. John's Red Storm men's basketball team represents St. John's University, located in Queens, New York. The team participates in the Big East Conference, of which it is a founding member. As of the end of the 2023–24 season, St. John's ranked ninth all-time among NCAA Division I teams with 1,973 total wins. St. John's has appeared in 32 NCAA tournaments, most recently qualifying as Big East tournament champion in 2026. St. John's best finish in the NCAA tournament came in 1952, when the team, then known as the Redmen, made their first trip to the Final Four and were NCAA runners-up. St. John's made its second and most recent Final Four appearance in 1985. St. John's is coached by Rick Pitino.^[2]

St. John's boasts two Wooden Award winners as national player of the year, 11 consensus All-Americans, six members of the College Basketball Hall of Fame, and has sent 59 players to the NBA. However, St. John's currently holds the NCAA Division I record for most NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship appearances without a championship.^{[citation needed]} The Red Storm play most of their home games at Madison Square Garden, while their early non-conference games are held at Carnesecca Arena on the St. John's campus in Queens.^[3] St. John's University holds the second best winning percentage for a New York City school in the NCAA basketball tournament (second to City College of New York, which won the 1950 NCAA Division I Championship^[4]). St. John's has the most NIT appearances with 27, the most championship wins with 6, although they were stripped of one due to an NCAA infraction.^[5] The 1910–11 St. John's team finished the season with a 14–0 record^[6] and was retroactively named the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and was the highest-ranked team by the retroactive Premo-Porretta Power Poll.^[7][8] While the NCAA lists the historical Helms selections for reference, neither Helms nor Premo-Porretta titles are officially recognized as NCAA national championships. In 2008, St. John's celebrated its 100th year of college basketball.