St. John's (Minn.) men's basketball news

  • Five years later: Who would have won?
    March 10, 2025
    Ryan Scott left us a time capsule in 2020. As the sports world came to a shuddering halt with the spread of COVID, he ended the 2020 Division III men's basketball NCAA Tournament the only way we could: on paper. Here's his take, as written five years ago, on who would have cut the nets down.
  • No. 7 SJU Edged 75-73 by No. 9 Illinois Wesleyan on Last-Second Shot
    March 08, 2025
    Senior guard Blake Berg and his teammates on the seventh-ranked Saint John's basketball team came up with big play after big play Saturday night. In the end, though, it was Illinois Wesleyan Karlo Colak who provided the last bit of dramatics, hitting a shot in the paint with under a second to go to lift the ninth-ranked Titans past the Johnnies 75-73 in the second round of the NCAA Division III tournament at the University of Chicago's Gerald Ratner Athletics Center.
  • Hoopsville: Furious Finish
    February 12, 2024
    It's going to be a battle. The final two weeks of the regular season is here and for most conference the final week of their schedules is now. On a special midday Monday edition of Hoopsville, we check in with teams around DIII trying to finish strong. Watch On Demand or listen to podcast here.
  • Hoopsville: Do or be Done
    February 24, 2022
    "There is no next game." That's what is stake for most of those playing in conference tournaments this week. We talk to a number of programs who know any NCAA dreams depend on winning their conference titles. Watch the super-sized Hoopsville On Demand or listen to the podcast here.
  • Tommie-Johnnie goes out with a bang
    March 05, 2021
    Going from playing in front of 2,500 people to playing in front of 25 didn't put a damper on one of the top rivalries in Division III college basketball when it all came to a conclusion on Wednesday night.
  • Friday night: Big rallies, big performances
    January 29, 2021
    The Baldwin Wallace women won in double overtime, Bluffton got a big performance to pick up its 11th win, while the Marietta and St. John's men had big performances in their first games of the season.
  • Hoopsville: Lunch Break
    February 06, 2020
    The last month of the regular season is here. Seems like the perfect time to take a break for lunch to chat with some of the top teams in the country, and one surprise conference contender. How they seemed prepared to still be playing next month. Watch Hoopsville On Demand, or listen to the podcast, here.
  • Saturday men: Johns, Hopkins rally on road
    January 25, 2020
    Johns Hopkins and St. John's rallied to win, while Ripon got the best of its archrival in Saturday's Division III men's basketball action. That, plus a buzzer-beater which was not waved off.
  • SJU slams rival; Midd, Macon rebound
    January 11, 2020
    St. John's took home a win with authority in its rivalry game-turned Top 10 matchup, while Middlebury and Randolph-Macon bounced back from their first losses of the season.
  • Team of the Week
    December 30, 2019
    D3hoops.com's weekly honor roll returns for its 23rd season honoring the best players at each position for the past week. It's the D3hoops.com Team of the Week, presented by Scoutware.
  • Who's in? Our projected men's bracket
    February 24, 2019
    We picked our projected teams live on Hoopsville tonight. Who do we think gets in? How will the NCAA pair them up? We've got a suggestion here in our projected 2019 Division III men's basketball NCAA Tournament bracket.
  • Wednesday: Down the stretch they come
    February 13, 2019
    The NESCAC race ended with its top six teams separated by one game. The OAC could finish in a four-way tie for first. Plus St. John's blasted its rivals and the DePauw women wrapped up the NCAC title on the last Wednesday night of the regular season.
  • Hoopsville: Conference Grind
    January 10, 2019
    The holiday break is long gone. The real grind of the basketball season has begun: conference play. What teams are impressing, who are faltering, and who will survive. Plus, the season debut of the "WBCA Center Court." Watch On Demand or listen to the podcast.
  • Men: Swat tops Dips, Witt stuns Woo
    February 17, 2018
    Swarthmore claimed the top seed in the Centennial Conference with a two-point win vs. F&M while Wittenberg won a thriller over rival Wooster thanks to two game-saving shots by Jacob Bertemes. Elsewhere Middlebury and New Jersey City were bounced from their tournaments and St. John's swept rival St. Thomas.
  • Men's top 25 poll released
    January 22, 2018
    St. John's reaches its highest ranking in the history of our poll while Emory and Henry enters the rankings for the first time ever. Did Marietta continue its run of Top 25 appearances? Is Stevens Point ranked? Find out here.
  • Saturday men: Overtime, big-time
    January 13, 2018
    Endicott got a big-time performance in a two-overtime win, while Messiah won in the third overtime at Albright on a big-time shot. Meanwhile, Wittenberg and St. John's kept their runs going in Saturday's Division III men's basketball action.
  • Oliver inspiring at SJU
    December 14, 2017
    Watch St. John's senior John Oliver closely and you may notice something about his play-- his tenacious defense, his energy, his vertical leaping ability. Then you may notice that he's doing it all with one hand and wonder how. Oliver explains to Nathan Ford in this week's Around the West column.
  • ATR: Oliver inspiring at SJU
    December 14, 2017
    Watch St. John's senior John Oliver closely and you may notice something about his play-- his tenacious defense, his energy, his vertical leaping ability. Then you may notice that he's doing it all with one hand. Nathan Ford profiles Oliver in this week's Around the West column.
  • Saturday men: Great finish in Great Lakes
    November 18, 2017
    The Great Lakes Invitational lived up to its name with a fantastic finish between host Marietta and St. Thomas. Meanwhile Wash U. won a Top 10 showdown, Randolph-Macon took down Ramapo and St. John's struck a blow for D3 pride.
  • Dose: Picking preseason favorites
    November 03, 2017
    The preseason ballot might be the hardest one of the year for our Top 25 voters. How much weight do you give last year's performance or a program's history? What do you do with transfers and new players? Dave McHugh takes you inside his process for putting together his ballot.
  • Thursday: Champs in bubble trouble
    February 23, 2017
    St. John's edged St. Thomas out of the MIAC tournament and perhaps out of the post season entirely. The bottom two teams in the IIAC tournament are the last two standing while the NWC women's tournament got off to a thrilling start.
  • After 51 seasons, a new face
    February 03, 2016
    St. John's first new basketball coach in a half-century, Pat McKenzie, might not spend 51 years on the Johnnies sidelines the way his predecessor did. But he has to be pleased with how his first year as head coach has gone so far.
  • McKenzie takes over for long-tenured Smith
    April 15, 2015
    Pat McKenzie was an assistant coach for nine of Jim Smith's 51 seasons and will get the chance to take over for the former St. John's coach.
  • After 51 seasons, Jim Smith retiring
    March 17, 2015
    St. John's is known for keeping its coaches around. A little over two years after the legendary John Gagliardi retired as football coach, Jim Smith, who has coached basketball for more than half a century, is calling it a career as well.
  • Smith in 50th season at SJU
    December 10, 2013
    When Jim Smith was contacted by St. John’s to be the men’s basketball coach, he didn't know the school existed. Now half a century later, the program hasn't known another coach.
  • Marx, Free Throws Fuel SJU to 68-66 Upset of No. 13 St. Thomas
    January 02, 2012
    COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. – Saint John's made each of its final six free throws and sophomore Seth Marx (Maple Grove, Minn./Benilde-St. Margaret's) drilled a three-pointer with 23 seconds remaining as the host Johnnies upset No. 13 St. Thomas 68-66 on Monday, Jan. 2, in Collegeville.
  • St. Mary's men hire St. John's assistant
    May 04, 2004
    St. Mary's athletic director Chris Kendall was determined to do a thorough – albeit quick – search to find a successor to Mark Lovelace as the head men's basketball