The 1961–62 St. John's Redmen basketball team represented
St. John's University during the 1961–62 college basketball season. The team was coached by
Joe Lapchick
Joseph Bohomiel Lapchick (April 12, 1900 – August 10, 1970) was an American professional basketball player, mostly known for playing with the Original Celtics in the 1920s and 1930s. He is commonly regarded as the best center of his era, overs ...
his seventeenth year at the school. This was St. John's first season playing their home games in
Alumni Hall on the new
Queens
Queens is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York. Located on Long Island, it is the largest New York City borough by area. It is bordered by the borough of Brooklyn at the western tip of Long ...
campus in
Hillside, NY along with a few of their major games being played in
Madison Square Garden in
New York, NY.
They finished with a 21–5 record and a second-place finish in the
1962 National Invitation Tournament losing
Dayton
Dayton () is the sixth-largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County. A small part of the city extends into Greene County. The 2020 U.S. census estimate put the city population at 137,644, while Greater Da ...
in the finals.
Roster
Schedule and results
College Basketball @ Sports-Reference.com
Retrieved 2016-Jul-31.
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References
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