1958–59 St. John's Redmen basketball team explained

Mode:	Basketball
Year:	1958 - 59
Prev Year:	1957–58
Next Year:	1959–60
Team:	St. John's Redmen
Conference:	Metropolitan New York Conference
Coachrank:	17
Record:	20 - 6
Conf Record:	4 - 2
Champion:	ECAC Holiday Festival Champions NIT Champions
Bowl:	NIT Championship vs. Bradley, W, 76-71 2OT

The 1958 - 59 St. John's Redmen basketball team represented St. John's University during the 1958–59 NCAA Division I college basketball season. The team was coached by Joseph Lapchick in his fourteenth year at the school and also was the first season Lou Carnesecca joined the basketball program as an assistant coach. The team was a member of the Metropolitan New York Conference. During this time the university was transitioning from Brooklyn to Queens, so the basketball team played their home games at Martin Van Buren High School in Queens, NY and Madison Square Garden in Manhattan while their new on campus arena, Alumni Hall, was being built.

Roster

	Name	Height	Position	Class	Hometown	Previous Team(s)
11	Gus Alfieri	6'2"	G	Sr.	Brooklyn, NY, U.S.	St. Francis Prep
14	Gary Marozas	6'6"	F/C	So.	Queens, NY, U.S.	Forest Hills HS
21	Mike Pedone	6'0"	G	Jr.	Jersey City, NJ, U.S.	St. Peter's Prep
24	Tony Jackson	6"4"	G/F	So.	Brooklyn, NY, U.S.	Thomas Jefferson HS
25	Bernie Pascal (DNP)	6'5"	F	Sr.	Brooklyn, NY, U.S.	St. Francis Prep
27	Dick Engert	6"5"	F	Sr.	Brooklyn, NY, U.S.	Xavier HS
33	Alan Seiden	5"10"	G	Sr.	Queens, NY, U.S.	Jamaica HS
34	Lou Roethel	6"6"	F/C	Sr.	Brooklyn, NY, U.S.	St. Francis Prep
	John Ryan	6'6"	F/C	Jr.	Long Beach, NY, U.S.	Long Beach HS
	Butch Dellacave	5'9"	G	So.	Brooklyn, NY, U.S.	St. John's Prep

|-!colspan=9 style="background:#FF0000; color:#FFFFFF;"| Regular Season

|-!colspan=9 style="background:#FF0000; color:#FFFFFF;"| NIT

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