| Sport: | basketball |
| Year: | 1961–62 |
| Prev Year: | 1960–61 |
| Next Year: | 1962–63 |
| Team: | St. John's Redmen |
| Conference: | Metropolitan New York Conference |
| Short Conf: | Metro NY |
| Coachrank: | 12 |
| Record: | 21–5 |
| Conf Record: | 5–0 |
| Head Coach: | Joe Lapchick |
| Hc Year: | 17th |
| Asst Coach1: | Lou Carnesecca |
| Ac1 Year: | 4th |
| Captain: | Kevin Loughery |
| Arena: | Alumni Hall Madison Square Garden |
| Champion: | NIT Second Place |
| Tourney: | NIT Championship vs. Dayton, L, 67-75 |
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 his seventeenth year at the school. This was St. John's first season playing their home games in Alumni Hall on the new Queens 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 in the finals.
| Name | Height | Position | Class | Hometown | Previous Team(s) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | Donnie Burks | 5'11" | G | Jr. | New York, NY, U.S. | Archbishop Molloy HS | |
| 11 | Bill O'Sullivan | 6'7" | F/C | Jr. | N/A | N/A | |
| 20 | Willie Hall | 6'4" | G/F | Sr. | New York, NY, U.S. | Archbishop Molloy HS | |
| 23 | Kevin Loughery (C) | 6'3" | G | RS Sr. | Bronx, NY, U.S. | Cardinal Hayes HS/Boston College | |
| 25 | LeRoy Ellis | 6'11" | C | Sr. | Brooklyn, NY, U.S. | Thomas Jefferson HS | |
| 30 | Fred Edelman (DNP) | 6'4" | G/F | Sr. | Queens, NY, U.S. | Forest Hills HS | |
| 33 | Ivan Kovac | 5"11" | G | Sr. | Queens, NY, U.S. | Bayside HS | |
| 34 | Walt Carroll | N/A | F | Jr. | N/A | N/A | |
| 35 | Frank O'Hara | 5'9" | G | Jr. | Brooklyn, NY, U.S. | Most Holy Trinity HS | |
| Dan Waddleton | 5'11" | G | So. | Jersey City, NJ, U.S. | St. Michael's HS | ||
| Ralph Passante | 6'3" | G/F | So. | North Bergen, NJ, U.S. | West New York Memorial HS |
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