Saturday, October 8, 2011

St. John's Announces Times And TV Information For 2011-12 Conference Games

QUEENS, N.Y. - The BIG EAST Conference released the St. John's University men's basketball team's finalized conference schedule, complete with game times and television broadcast information, on Monday. St. John's also released its full slate of exhibition and non-conference game times, with television broadcast information for those contests still to come.

The Red Storm will appear in at least 17 nationally-televised games during the regular season, including January/February matchups with Duke and UCLA (CBS), and at least 15 additional games on the ESPN family of national networks (ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU). In addition, STJ will make at least nine appearances on New York regional sports networks SportsNet New York (SNY, 4) and the Madison Square Garden Network (MSG, 5).

For the fourth-straight season, St. John's men's basketball games will be carried on the Red Storm's powerful flagship station, Bloomberg Radio 1130-AM. Expert commentary will be provided by veteran broadcaster John Minko and for the first time Tim O'Toole, a current ESPN analyst, former Fairfield bench boss and BIG EAST assistant. Through St. John's multimedia rightsholder IMG College, SiriusXM will also broadcast live all games vs. BIG EAST Conference foes and any ranked hardwood matchups.

St. John's plays 19 regular season home dates in all, with 11 at Madison Square Garden, "The World's Most Famous Arena," and seven on campus at Carnesecca Arena, plus two exhibition contests at Carnesecca Arena on Tuesday, Oct. 25 (C.W. Post, 7 p.m.) and Tuesday, Nov. 1 (St. Mary's (Md.), 7 p.m.).

In all, St. John's could play 17 regular season games against teams that participated in the postseason in 2010-11, all from the NCAA Tournament (Arizona, Cincinnati, Connecticut, Duke, Georgetown, Kentucky, Louisville, Marquette, Notre Dame, Pitt, Syracuse, Texas A&M, Villanova, West Virginia, UCLA). The 2010-11 season saw the BIG EAST place a record 11 teams in the NCAA Championship Tournament with UConn winning the national title. An incredible 91 percent of all BIG EAST Conference games in 2011-12 will include a team that played in the 2011 NCAA tourney