When asked once in a question-and-answer sit-down with the school to describe St. John’s, Carnesecca said: “home.”It was home where he coached St. John’s to 18 20-win seasons and 18 NCAA Tournament appearances.
Carnesecca coached St. John’s to the NIT title in 1989, although by then the tournament had long been a poor cousin to the NCAAs.
In 1958, he took an assistant’s job at St. John’s, his alma mater, where he had played baseball but not varsity basketball.
Essentially, St. John’s was getting ready for a road trip to Pittsburgh in January and Carnesecca was under the weather.
After he retired, Carnesecca was succeeded by a parade of coaches at St. John’s, Mullin among them.
Persons:
– Lou Carnesecca, John’s, Carnesecca, Carnesecca “, “ Looie ”, Chris Mullin, Mark Jackson, Walter Berry, “, John's, Lou Carnesecca, Paul Burnett, egos, Mike Tranghese, ”, ” Carnesecca, Jim Calhoun, ” Lou Carnesecca, Ed Betz, Luigi P, Tony Lazzeri, Joe DiMaggio, –, Archbishop Molloy, Joe Lapchick, Mullin, Lapchick, Rick Barry, Red Storm –, Jim Boeheim, Rollie Massimino, John Thompson, Patrick Ewing, Red Storm, “ It’s, Mary, Enes, Gerard
Organizations:
St, Big East Conference, Big, NIT, Basketball Hall of Fame, ”, Boston College, Big East, Madison, UConn, Hartford Courant, New York Yankees, Coast Guard, New York Nets, American Basketball Association, ABA, City College, NYU, Red Storm, Garden, Syracuse, Villanova, Georgetown, New York Daily, GQ, NCAA, Southern, North Carolina State, West Regional, – Georgetown, Villanova –, Hoyas, Red
Locations:
York, St, New York, Queens, ” St, schoolyards, Bolognese, Tuscany, St John's, Manhattan, East Harlem, Madison, Georgetown, Pittsburgh, Italian, Southern , Arkansas, Kentucky, Lexington , Kentucky, Memphis