Explore every episode of the podcast Red Storm Rapid Reaction - St. John’s Hoops
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| St. John’s adds Bryce Hopkins + RJ and Brady enter portal | 02 Apr 2025 | 00:35:38 | |
St. John’s adds 1 time 1st team All Big East forward Bryce Hopkins! He will help offset the loss of BE POY RJ Luis who plans on going pro while also entering the transfer portal. Brady Dunlap had some very nice words about the staff and program but decided transferring was in his best interest. We wish them both well and thank them for helping turn this program around! | |||
| St. John’s signs Joson Sanon to help us survive the end of the season | 27 Mar 2025 | 00:24:04 | |
Rick Pitino wasted no time to help cheer up St. John’s fans after their disappointing second round exit in the NCAA tournament, by signing former top 30 SG Joson Sanon out of Arizona state. A 6’5 shooting guard with a serious scoring reputation. We also discuss our loss to Arkansas. | |||
| St. John’s wins NCAA first round game Vs Omaha 83-53 | 21 Mar 2025 | 00:23:15 | |
St. John’s wins its first NCAA game in 25 years with a second half beat down of Omaha 83-53. RJ Luis had 22 points and 8 rebounds. Kadary Richmond had 10 points 8 rebounds and 6 assists. As a team St. John’s shot 14-37 from 3. St. John’s will face Arkansas on Saturday 2:40 on CBS | |||
| PREVIEW: #2 St. John’s Vs #15 Omaha | 19 Mar 2025 | 00:23:36 | |
St. John’s faces Omaha in Providence on Thursday night looking for their first NCAA win since 2000. | |||
| BIG EAST FINAL: WIN!! St. John’s 82 - Creighton 66 | 16 Mar 2025 | 00:22:36 | |
St. John’s wins its first BIG EAST Tournament Championship in 25 years! RJ Luis wins the 2025 BET most Outstanding Player award after scoring 27 of his 29 points in the seconds half! | |||
| Big East Tourney Game #2: Win - St. John’s 79 - Marquette 63 | 15 Mar 2025 | 00:25:18 | |
Zuby had a career high 33 points and Kadary had a rock solid double double. Now St. John’s is going to the BET final for the first time in 25 years! | |||
| Big East Tourney Game 1: Win - SJU 78 - Butler 57 | 14 Mar 2025 | 00:17:56 | |
St. John’s cruises past Butler in the quarterfinals of the big East tournament. | |||
| Game #31: Win! - St. John’s 86 - Marquette 84 | 08 Mar 2025 | 00:16:14 | |
St. John’s caps off its magic regular season with a 86-84 OT thriller as the knock off Marquette on the road. Kadary Richmond had the first triple double in program history since Ron Artest in 1999! RJ Luis had 28 and 11! And Zuby had his 2nd game winner of the season! | |||
| Game #28 Win - St. John’s 89 - Uconn 75 | 23 Feb 2025 | 00:18:55 | |
All 5 starters scored 12+ points as #10 St. John’s runs over uconn and sweeps the season series. | |||
| Game #24 - WIN: St. John’s 68 - Uconn 62 | 08 Feb 2025 | 00:14:11 | |
What an amazing week. What a team. We all deserve this. RJ Luis this game. Kadary last game. Who’s next?! | |||
| Game #20 - Win - St. John’s 79 - Xavier 71 | 23 Jan 2025 | 00:23:35 | |
#20 St. John’s (red)storms back from 16 down to sweep the Xavier musketeers. Kadary Richmond had his best game of the season and was huge down the stretch. | |||
| Game #19: WIN - St John’s 79 - Seton Hall 51 | 19 Jan 2025 | 00:26:34 | |
St John’s is 7-1 and alone atop the BE standings! | |||
| Game #17 - Win - St. John’s 80 - Nova 68 | 12 Jan 2025 | 00:22:05 | |
St. John’s wills its way to a victory at an electric MSG in front of 18,000 fans! | |||
| Game # 12 WIN - St John’s 72 - Providence 70 | 21 Dec 2024 | 00:15:04 | |
Zuby Ejiofor caps off a double double with a buzzer beating put back and St. John’s is alone atop the BE standings at 2-0! | |||
| Game #10 - Win - St. John’s 99 Bryant 77 | 12 Dec 2024 | 00:28:37 | |
Zuby with his second straight 20+ point 10 rebound double double. He’s a monster! | |||
| St. John’s LEGEND Lou Carnesecca passes away at 99 | 01 Dec 2024 | 00:30:22 | |
Lou was an absolute icon, adored by all he touched. St. John’s fans are forever indebted to his work, generosity, and class. Without Lou, there is no us! | |||
| St. John’s leaves Bahamas trip with 1-2 record after disappointing loss to Georgia | 25 Nov 2024 | 00:29:13 | |
St. John’s never got going today, but still they had opportunities late in the game to come away with the victory and they failed to take advantage. A disappointing trip comes to an end, but this team still has plenty of talent and a whole season ahead of them. Let’s stick with these guys! | |||
| Game #5 - L - St. John’s 98 - Baylor 99 | 22 Nov 2024 | 00:12:37 | |
There’s tough losses. There’s realllllly tough losses. And then there’s what just happened in the Bahamas Vs Baylor. Just when think you’ve seen it all… Move over Nova up 16 in the BET. Step aside Michael Stephens and Seton Hall. Time to add another memory to the Rolodex of doom. | |||
| Game #4 - WIN - St John’s 85 - New Mexico 71 | 18 Nov 2024 | 00:24:48 | |
St. John’s beats Richard Pitinos New Mexico squad 85-71. RJ Luis once again was absolutely tremendous, finishing with 21 points 11 boards and 7 assists. | |||
| Game #3 - Win 3-0 - St. John’s 66 - Wagner 45 | 14 Nov 2024 | 00:22:12 | |
#22 St. John’s beats Wagner in a defensive battle by a score of 66-45. Rj Luis lead the way with 13 points and Deivon Smith had 9 pts, 8 rebs $ 3 assists. | |||
| Game #2 - Quinnipiac - Win 96-73 | 10 Nov 2024 | 00:24:37 | |
St. John’s shrugs off a slow first half and blows past Quinnipiac late 96-73. Rj Luis lead the way with 24 points and 13 rebounds. | |||
| Game #1- Win - SJU 92 - Fordham 60 | 05 Nov 2024 | 00:21:07 | |
St. John’s crushes Fordham 92-60 in the season opener. Kadary Richmond lead the way with 16 points 10 boards and 5 assists and sophomore Simeon Wilcher showed off his confidence with a career best 17 points. | |||
| St. John’s impresses in exhibition win over Rutgers | 18 Oct 2024 | 00:19:39 | |
Zuby Ejiofor had 27 points and 13 rebounds and that’s not a typo!! St. John’s wins 91-85 in an exciting October matchup, good things are here for Johnnies fans! | |||
| A preview of St. John’s out of conference slate and a toast to a St. John’s Legend Paul Massell | 11 Aug 2024 | 00:31:56 | |
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| St. John’s adds Portuguese big man Ruben Prey | 27 Jun 2024 | 00:27:00 | |
Our 2024-25 roster looks complete! | |||
| Kadary Richmond and Deivon Smith commit to St. John’s | 08 May 2024 | 00:26:18 | |
Rick Pitino has his backcourt for the 24-25 season! | |||
| St. John’s Adds two Transfers and are on the Hunt for More | 27 Apr 2024 | 00:39:17 | |
Aaron Scott and Vince Iwuchukwu are the first two additions but bigger names have been linked to SJU as of late. | |||
| St. John’s Misses NCAA Tournament | 19 Mar 2024 | 00:26:08 | |
The season didn’t end where we wanted it to. The committee showed little to no love for us and the BE. Would hate to face a pissed off Rick Pitino next year!! | |||
| BET Game #1- WIN: St. John’s 91 - Seton Hall 72 | 14 Mar 2024 | 00:15:12 | |
St. John’s pounds seton hall to avenge their two early season losses and to set themselves up nicely to make the DANCE! | |||
| Game #20 - Win - SJU 70 - NOVA 50 | 25 Jan 2024 | 00:16:39 | |
St. John’s gets a much needed 20 point victory over Villanova at The Garden. | |||
| Game # 16 - W - St. John’s 75 - Providence 73 | 11 Jan 2024 | 00:20:22 | |
St. John’s holds on for a narrow victory Vs PC at MSG. The johnnies are 4-1 and tied for first in BE play. | |||
| Game #15 - W - St. John’s 81 - Nova 71 | 07 Jan 2024 | 00:18:03 | |
St. John’s moves to 3-1 in the big East thanks to the continued dominance of Joel Soriano (20 & 8) and the solid support of DJ Jenkins. Providence comes to the garden for a big time opportunity for St John’s to beat a team they could be competing with come tournament birth time. | |||
| Game #14 - W - St. John’s 86 - Butler 70 | 04 Jan 2024 | 00:13:58 | |
Cole is joined by his fellow lifelong languishing St. John’s fan..and brother Shaun. So appreciative of the work Cole has done and the progress The Red Storm Rapid Reaction Podcast has made! Thanks to all of you for listening and joining in! Sorry for it being less “rapid”! | |||
| Game #13 - W - St John’s 84 - Hofstra 79 | 30 Dec 2023 | 00:15:25 | |
St. John’s holds on for 5 point win to close out their out of conference schedule. | |||
| Game #11 - Win - St. John’s 81 - Xavier 66 | 21 Dec 2023 | 00:11:56 | |
What a performance by our big guy Joel! | |||
| Game #9 - L - SJU 80 - BC 86 | 11 Dec 2023 | 00:18:38 | |
St. John’s throws out a pitiful display of defense in the second half to allow BC to come back from 10 and 6 point deficits respectively. | |||
| Game #8 - W - St. John’s 85 - Sacred Heart 50 | 07 Dec 2023 | 00:16:18 | |
Sacred Heart ran into a St. John’s team that was firing on all cylinders. Joel Soriano had 18 points 13 rebounds and 6 assists 4 straight wins for the johnnies who will look to make it five in a row Sunday night Vs Boston College. | |||
| Game #6 - W - St. John’s 91 - Holy Cross 45 | 26 Nov 2023 | 00:18:51 | |
RJ Luis made his St. John’s debut and he looked fantastic doing it! St. John’s rolls 92-45, next up WVU on Friday 12/1. | |||
| Game #5 - W - St. John’s 91 - Utah 82 | 20 Nov 2023 | 00:12:36 | |
St. John’s finishes the Charleston Classic strong with a nice win over Utah 91-82 | |||
| Game #3 - St. John’s 53 - North Texas 52 (2-1) | 16 Nov 2023 | 00:16:45 | |
St. John’s hold on for narrow victory over North Texas in first round of Charleston classic by score of 53-52. | |||
| Game #2 - Michigan 89 - SJU 73 (1-1) | 14 Nov 2023 | 00:23:46 | |
Michigan spoils Rick Pitinos Garden debut. There is A LOT to work on with the group but I would advise you not to give up early on a squad with this many new pieces and this many NCAAB veterans. | |||
| Game #1 -WIN- St. John’s 90 - Stony Brook 74 | 08 Nov 2023 | 00:18:12 | |
Rick Pitino gets his first win at St. John’s 90-74 over Stony Brook. Joel Soriano with 22 & 11, Chris Ledlum with 16 & 14, and Daniss Jenkins with 17,8 & 7. Let’s go thrash the wolverines on Monday. | |||
| St John’s Opens up Rick Pitino Era with a BLAST - Beating Rutgers 89-78 in Double OT | 22 Oct 2023 | 00:18:53 | |
Momma we made it!! | |||
| Thoughts from St John’s Open Practice on 10/1 | 02 Oct 2023 | 00:22:44 | |
I made it down to CA for the first ever time to make sure I could say I was there from Day 1 for this new look St. John’s team under coach Pitino. Damn am I happy I did so! The team played 5 v 5 in some different variations for 1:40 minutes. Here are my thoughts… | |||
| 7’1 Center - Khaman Maker commits to St John’s | 19 Sep 2023 | 00:19:48 | |
Rick Pitino Does it again!! Khaman Maker commits to St John’s. | |||
| 4 Star Small Forward Jaiden Glover Commits to Rick Pitino and St. John’s! | 13 Sep 2023 | 00:14:12 | |
Four star recruit Jaiden Glover is the second 4 star from New Jersey to commit to St. John’s and Rick Pitino. Look for Jaiden to climb the rankings in the next release. | |||
| Rick Pitino does it AGAIN! Harvard Transfer Chris Ledlum Selects St. John’s. | 19 Jul 2023 | 00:27:01 | |
Summer ain’t over yet folks! Please continue to listen and check out the youtube page! | |||
| BREAKING!! Rick Pitino Lands Simeon Wilcher - Top 30 High School Recruit | 12 Jun 2023 | 00:29:29 | |
Rick Pitino doesn’t take an off season break. Rick Pitino doesn’t believe in having a roster that’s full. Rick Pitino wants all the talent. Rick Pitino is getting the talent. | |||
| Rick Pitino Completes his Roster Rebuild! | 16 May 2023 | 00:24:06 | |
Rick Pitino adds two more additions to finish off his St. John’s roster. High scoring guard and reigning IVY league POY, Jordan Dingle. And former top 50 recruit and freshmen big man transfer, Zuby Ejiofor. | |||
| The Adventures of Rick Pitino and His 9 New Recruits | 10 May 2023 | 00:50:51 | |
Rick Pitino has garnered 9 commitments since taking over at St. John’s. 8 transfer, 1 freshmen, and 2 scholarship still yet to be filled. Please subscribe to the Youtube channel if you haven’t yet. This is one episode where it will truly improve the experience. | |||