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Lou Carnesecca liked to wear sweaters. He had no idea what he was creating when he grabbed one before a basketball game in early 1985. Carnesecca, who died Nov. 30 at 99, had 526 wins at St. John ...
Basketball coaches across the Big East are wearing sweaters this weekend as a tribute to legendary St. John’s coach Lou Carnesecca, who died last November. Sunday would have been Carnesecca’s ...
In the long and storied history of New York City basketball, nobody wore it quite like Lou Carnesecca. The excitable St. John’s coach whose outlandish sweaters became an emblem of his team’s ...
In the January 26, 1985, game, St. John's again beat Georgetown, with St. John's head coach Lou Carnesecca attired in an old sweater he had worn in five straight St. John's wins to combat the effects of a common cold, and his team was elevated to No. 1 in the next AP Poll.
St. John's won 24 games the next year and lost in the second round of the NCAA tournament. The 1990-91 squad fell one game short of the Final Four with a loss to Duke in the NCAA Regional Final. Carnesecca closed out his career with one last season that saw St. John's go 19-11 but win a share of the Big East regular season championship.
A statue of him was unveiled before the 2021-22 season. When asked once in a question-and-answer sit-down with the school to describe St. John’s, Carnesecca said: “home.” It was home where he coached St. John’s to 18 20-win seasons and 18 NCAA Tournament appearances.
Carnesecca guided St. John's to Big East Tournament titles in 1983 and 1986. His teams reached the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament in 1979 and 1991, and spent more than 70 weeks ranked in the top 10 of the AP Top 25. A banner denoting his 526 wins at St. John's hangs from the rafters at Madison Square Garden.
The 1978–79 St. John's Redmen basketball team represented St. John's University during the 1978–79 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team was coached by Lou Carnesecca in his eleventh year at the school. St. John's home games were (and to this day still are) played at Alumni Hall and Madison Square Garden.