BIG EAST Announces St. John’s League Basketball Matchups For 2010-11 Season

QUEENS, N.Y.

(June 24, 2010) – St.

John’s and the BIG EAST Conference announced the 2010-11 league matchups for the Red Storm men’s basketball team on Thursday.

St. John’s will take part in home-and-home series with Georgetown, Notre Dame and Cincinnati during the upcoming season, and will meet the remaining BIG EAST league opponents once either at home or on the road.

In 2010-11, the BIG EAST will once again play an 18-game conference schedule, in which teams face 12 opponents once and three teams twice. It will mark the fourth year of the 18-game schedule, which began for the 2007-08 season. All 144 regular-season conference games will once again be televised, either by CBS Sports, the ESPN family of networks or ESPN Regional Television.

The decisions regarding repeat opponents are based on natural interest, geography, rivalries, television contractual obligations and competitive balance.

In addition to the Hoyas, Fighting Irish and Bearcats, St. John’s plays a host of marquee home matchups against conference opponents. Syracuse, Connecticut, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, USF and DePaul all travel to New York City for matchups on one of St. John’s home courts, either at the newly-renovated Carnesecca Arena, or on the grand stage at Madison Square Garden, “The World’s Most Famous Arena.”

The Red Storm will hit the road to face Villanova, Louisville, Marquette, West Virginia, Providence and Seton Hall in addition to Georgetown, Notre Dame and Cincinnati.

“Year-in and year-out, the BIG EAST Conference has consistently proven to be among the most competitive leagues in college basketball,” said St. John’s head coach Steve Lavin. “In addition to our rugged BIG EAST schedule, we are looking forward to playing an extremely challenging non-conference slate, highlighted by matchups against defending national champion Duke and Pac-10 power UCLA.”

The complete St. John’s men’s basketball schedule, with non-conference opponents, dates, times and television information, will be released with the rest of the BIG EAST conference basketball schedules at a later date this fall. The complete non-conference schedule will be released later in the summer.

Fans can be a part of the 2010-11 St. John’s hardwood campaign by visiting www.redstormsports.com and clicking on the “Tickets” link to reserve men’s basketball season tickets.