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Norm Roberts To Join SNY

October 17, 2010 by Timmy Dimas 2 Comments

normclap — Hopefully Norms vocals are back to full strength as he's out of coaching and into the studios full time with SNY. (Icon SMI)

After 11 years as a head coach Norm Roberts is walking away from the sidelines and into the studios. ZAGSBLOG.com reported yesterday that sources with knowledge indicated that Roberts would be joining the Big East broadcast coverage for SNYtv this upcoming season.

Roberts, the former head coach of St. John’s Red Storm basketball team, was succeeded by Steve Lavin this past off-season. Roberts lead the Red Storm from 2004-2009 finishing 64-85 in overall play and 26-58 in Big East play. Last year was one of Roberts’ best seasons at the helm at St. John’s leading his team to the second round of the Big East tournament. The Red Storm gave fans hope beating UConn 73-51 in the first round but lost a heart breaker to Marquette 57-55 in the next round. The Johnnies received a bid to their first NIT appearance under Norm but were quickly ousted in the first round by the Memphis Tigers 73-71.

Two days after the loss, it was announced that Norm Roberts would be fired as head coach of St. John’s. There were reports early in April that insisted Roberts was a candidate for the Iona job that was also looking for a head coach after Kevin Willard left the program and accepted the head coaching position at Seton Hall University. Roberts wasn’t interested in coaching the Gaels leaving the job open for former St. John’s player Tim Cluess.

Roberts, who took over a tainted St. Johns program and helped rebuild it’s name over his 6 year tenure, is now joining SNY and its likely that he will replace the void on the panel left by Tim Welsh. Welsh was hired by Hofstra University to become their next head coach but he resigned 29 days after receiving the job because he was charged with a DWI. Welsh was apart of pre-game, halftime and post-game along with Charles Smith and the host of the Big East Basketball Studio, Gary Apple.

We here at Johnny Jungle wish Norm Roberts the best of luck at his new job.

St. John’s TV Schedule Announced

October 8, 2010 by Dave Krupinski Leave a Comment

The BIG EAST Conference released the St. John’s University men’s basketball team’s finalized schedule, complete with game times and television broadcast information, on Friday night. A total of 24 St. John’s regular season matchups will appear on television, excluding broadcast information that may be added for the 2010 Carrs/Safeway Great Alaska Shootout, as well as the Red Storm’s visit to Fordham’s historic Rose Hill Gym on Saturday, Dec. 11.

The Red Storm will appear in 11 nationally-televised games during the regular season, including late January/early February matchups with Duke and UCLA on CBS and nine additional games on the ESPN family of national networks (ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU). In addition, STJ will make 13 appearances on New York regional sports networks (SNY, MSG, MSG Plus).

For the third-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 former St. John’s standout guard Tarik Turner. Any non-televised home game will be carried live by RedStormSports.com’s subscription-based broadband Internet video service, StormTracker All-Access, with play-by-play announcer Ralph Bednarczyk on the call.

St. John’s new head coach Steve Lavin guides a Red Storm team with a 10-man senior class. STJ veterans include returning scoring leaders D.J. Kennedy (15.1 points per game, 6.1 rebounds per game, 3.1 assists per game, 1.2 steals per game), Dwight Hardy (10.5 ppg, .383 3-point field goal percentage) and Paris Horne (9.2 ppg).

The Lavin Era officially begins on the road and on national television, as St. John’s will take on 2010 NCAA Tournament participant Saint Mary’s (Calif.) at the Gaels’ home in Moraga, Calif., on Tuesday, Nov. 16 at 2 a.m. E.T. The matchup is the second game as part of ESPN’s third annual College Hoops Tip-Off Marathon, which features 12 live college basketball games in 24 consecutive hours on the network.

St. John’s plays 16 regular season home dates in all, with eight at Madison Square Garden, “The World’s Most Famous Arena,” and seven on campus at Carnesecca Arena, plus an exhibition contest against Westmont in Queens at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 6. In all, St. John’s could play 19 regular-season games against teams that participated in postseason tournaments in 2009-10 (NCAA – Duke, Georgetown, Louisville, Marquette, Notre Dame, Pitt, Saint Mary’s, Syracuse, Villanova, West Virginia; NIT – Arizona State, Cincinnati, Connecticut, Northwestern, Seton Hall, USF).

For ticket information, schedules, scores and highlights for all St. John’s games, visit the home of the Red Storm on the Internet at www.redstormsports.com. Tickets can be purchased online or by calling the St. John’s Ticket Office at 1-888-GO-STORM or 718-990-6211.

STJ Media Day to Air Live

November 3, 2009 by Dave Krupinski Leave a Comment

Redstormsports.com reports that

“St. John’s will hold its annual Media Day for the Red Storm men’s and women’s basketball teams on Tuesday, Nov. 3, beginning at approximately 3 p.m. at the newly-renovated Carnesecca Arena. Approximately 50 members of the media have been credentialed for the event, and, for the first time ever, Red Storm supporters are too – thanks to StormTracker All-Access live streaming video on RedStormSports.com.

StormTracker All-Access is the official streaming video platform of St. John’s Athletics, providing live video for more than 100 sports events on campus each year, and producing more than 150 on-demand video features as well. StormTracker All-Access commentators Ralph Bednarczyk and Greg Rice will take fans behind the scenes Tuesday with live coverage from the floor of Carnesecca Arena during media day activities.

At approximately 3 p.m., St. John’s coaches Norm Roberts and Kim Barnes Arico will address the media on the court in a press conference format, and the coaches and all men’s and women’s basketball student-athletes will be available for interview sessions from approximately 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. The coaches and many of St. John’s men’s and women’s basketball players will join the All-Access commentators on-set for interviews.

The tentative Media Day schedule is as follows:

2009 St. John’s Basketball Media Day – Tuesday, Nov. 3 – Carnesecca Arena

3:00 p.m. – Head Coaches’ Press Conferences
3:30 p.m. – Interview Session I
4:00 p.m. – Interview Session II
4:30 p.m. – Media Day Ends”

You can catch all the action on Storm Tracker All-Access.