It Is Time to Get Into St. John's Men's Basketball
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It Is Time to Get Into St. John's Men's Basketball

A quick primer on New York City's college basketball team to prepare you for March Madness.

The days are getting longer and spring is on the horizon, which means it must be time for MARCH MADNESS. But in New York City, for decades now, March "Madness" has been pretty tame. In fact, many people believe that our city doesn't even have a college basketball team, and some upstate schools have gone so far as to try to usurp the label, like when Syracuse called itself "New York's College Team" and ran ads on New York City taxicabs with that title.

That's all FALSE, because New York City does have a basketball team, and it is the St. John's Red Storm—they just haven't been good since the late 1990s. 

But now, friends, they are good again—in fact, they are very good. So we're here to answer your hypothetical questions and bring you up to speed on this season's Big East tournament (which is happening right now) and the NCAA tournament (which starts next week). 

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