First Team All-State 1967UPI Gordon Thomas Player Profile, St. John's - RealGM Gordon Thomas Gordon Thomas Current Team: N/A Nationality: United States Current NBA Status: Unrestricted Free Agent Draft Entry: 1979 NBA Draft Drafted: Round 10, Pick 5, New York Knicks Pre-Draft Team: St. John's (Sr) Change player? This website is an unofficial and independently operated source of news and information and is not directly affiliated with any school or team. A four-year varsity performer for the Rockets, Pohlman scored 830 career points and earned first-team all-FVA honors as a junior and senior. He scored 1,384 career points for the Zephyrs, including a career-high 32 points in a 66-64 loss to Milwaukee Pulaski. And St. Mary Catholic has advanced to the WIAA tourney just once, but made multiple state-tournament trips in the old WISAA/WCIAA. You have to go back 19 years for the last time St. John's was successful with a roster full of New Yorkers. Learn more and register here. . Players Who Played For St. John's 56 NBA/ABA Players and 1 WNBA Player Select a College Stats shown are for the player's NBA & ABA or WNBA career * indicates a Hall of Famer A first-team all-FVA pick as a junior and senior, Smolinski left Menasha as the school's all-time leading scorer with 1,129points. He then had 18 points in a 69-67 victory over Superior Cathedral in the title game. Block scored a career-high 35 points in a triumph over New London. Hawley, who netted 29 points in the Rockets' 79-72 victory over West Allis Hale in the state-tournament quarterfinals,finished his three-year varsity career with 830 points and currently ranks eighth on the school's all-time scoring list. Neenah/Menasha may have not produced as many all-state players in recent seasons as it once did, but the history of the programs at Menasha, Neenah and St. Mary Catholic are rich and exceptionally deep. And he now has his slew of guards for years to come. First Team All-State 1980 AP Latest on St. John's Red Storm forward O'Mar Stanley including news, stats, videos, highlights and more on ESPN 2) In addition to the accomplishments a player achieved in high school, their college honors in the sport also weighheavily when selecting the teams. BBB News Men's Basketball at Whitworth University - NCAA First-Round March 3, 2023 4:40 PM. Copyright 2000-2023 Sports Reference LLC. 197778 St. John's Redmen basketball team, "197778 St. John's Redmen basketball team", Learn how and when to remove this template message, 197778 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=197778_St._John%27s_Redmen_basketball_team&oldid=1132911432, This page was last edited on 11 January 2023, at 06:44. The Wildcats, led by 3rd-year head coach Denise Dillon, play their home games at the Finneran Pavilion and are members of the Big East Conference . 3 in the preseason poll because of a roster that included four future NBA first-round picks Mullin, Wennington . All three schools have won state championships with Menasha and St. Mary Catholic capturing state crowns in the same season, 1952-53. He averaged 16.7 points as a senior in 1991-92 while playing for coach Don Gosz and the Bluejays. ESPN grades are on a 100-point scale. Enter your information to receive emails about offers, promotions from NCAA.com and our partners, Mike Lopresti tells the story of UTM's Parker Stewart and his mom Cheryl, who have a 'bond formed through broken hearts. Curtin, a two-time first-team all-FVA selection, played one season at South Dakota following his prep days at Neenah. * Ole Jorgensen and Ron Einerson, both long-time coaches at Neenah, and Doug Martin, who coached at Neenah, Eau Claire North and Wausau before entering collegiate coaching. He helped St. Mary Catholic to a 77-17record during his four years of playing for legendary coach Ralph McClone, including Catholic-school state titles in 1953 and 1955. Here are the tournament leaders, with games in parentheses (minimum three games): Zach Pekale is an alumnus of Arizona State University with a degree in sports journalism. Curtin, a wing player with deep shooting range, scored 29 points in victories over Janesville Craig and Milwaukee Pulaski leading up to the title contest with Onalaska. Schreiner scored eightpoints in that contest and had 14in a state-semifinal triumph over Wisconsin Rapids Assumption. They defeated St. John's, UConn, and Creighton to win the Big East tournament championship. An All-Catholic Tournament selection, Prunuske averaged 7.1 ppg and went on to play college football and basketball at St. Norbert College. Jerry Curtin, 6-5, F, 1988, Neenah He went on to play four years of college basketball at UW-Stevens Point. He then scored 23 points for coach Les Ansorge and the Bluejays in their 56-45 loss to Wauwatosa in the state semifinals. The floor general for a Neenah squad that won 24 straight games before sustaining a heart-breaking 58-57 loss to Appleton West in the 1970 WIAA championship game, Hawley averaged 18.6 ppg as a senior for coach Ron Einerson and the Rockets. Second . Notes (1950s): Fred Seggelink (6-3) played varsity basketball for four seasons at Neenah and started every game he played as a sophomore, junior and senior. Photos. Janai Crooms scored her 1,000th point in the Friars' season opener vs. Dayton on Nov. 7. Neenah was Wisconsin's dominant high school program in the 1970s and the Kreklow brothers played an enromousrole in the Rockets' success under coach Ron Einerson. The transfer portal had been slowly chipping away at the St. John's basketball roster but the atomic bomb dropped on Wednesday afternoon as juniors Greg Willams Jr. and Marcellus Earlington announced their intentions to enter the transfer portal. The team was coached by Lou Carnesecca in his twenty first year at the school. He went on to enjoy a stellar four-year career at the University of North Dakota, where he earned all-league honors three times and scored 1,442 career points. The complete men's 2023 March Madness tournament schedule dates and locations are: Selection Sunday: Sunday, March 12 (6 p.m. He went on to play at Marquette University before embarking on his stellar coaching career that included stops at Gilman, Xavier and Florida Tech (now Central Florida) Bill Resch (6-0) and Farnham (Gunner) Johnson (6-2) were teammates on St. Mary Catholic's 1940 Catholic school title team and each earned all-tournament recognition after helping the Zephyrs defeat Marinette Lourdes, Little Chute St. John's and La Crosse Aquinas en route to the title. Notes (1980s): Kevin Rule(6-6) played three seasons of varsity basketball for coach Ron Einerson at Neenah and shared Player of the Year honors in the Fox Valley Association with Peter Franck of Appleton East as a senior in 1988-89. Appleton's Scott Hanson made a jump shot with under five seconds left in the game to give the Terrors the victory over the Rockets. St. John's and St. Thomas squared off on athletic fields for the first time on Thanksgiving Day 1901 when a Tommie club football team fell to the Johnnies. Men's Basketball 2022-23 Men's Basketball Roster Go To Coaching Staff Roster Layout: Choose A Season: Sort By: Footer 8000 Utopia Parkway Queens, NY 11439 / / Ad Blocker Detected Thanks for visiting redstormsports.com! Klesmit scored a career-best 42pointsin a victory over Appleton East as a junior. He scored 428 points in 20 games, averaging 21.4 ppg for coach Ole Jorgenson and the Rockets. St. Henry Boys Basketball has four state titles - 1979, 1990, 1991, 2004 - and 14 M.A.C. Metz later became an assistant coach under Ralph McClone at St. Mary Catholic Dick Jorgensen (5-11),the son of Neenah coach Ole Jorgensen, earned all-WIAA State Tournament first-team honors as a senior in 1951-52 as he scored 14 points in a state-quarterfinal loss to Superior Central, 14 in a consolation semifinal win over Altoona and 17 in a 66-65 overtime loss to Wauwatosa in the consolation title game. By 1979, the entire bracket was seeded and the fieldexpanded to 40 teams before increasing again to 48 in 1980. The 1978 NCAA tournament marked Notre Dame's first trip to the Final Four. As of February 27, 2023. Wippich coached basketball at St. Mary Catholic and Kimberly while Massey was the head coach at Menasha and Prairie du Chien Campion. Athletics Council on Community, Culture & Social Justice, St. John's Insider: Official E-Mail Newsletter, Video Platform Powered by CBS Sports Digital. He helped the Rockets to an 18-4 record as a senior in 1957-58 and first-team all-Mid-Eastern Conference honors for the second year in a row in the process. Ht. The 2022-23 St. John's Red Storm women's basketball team represent St. John's University during the 2022-23 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. Men's Season Points, Women's Career Rebounds, Men's Yearly Assists, Women's Season Wins, Men's Career W-L% College Basketball Scores UNLV 77, Duke 79 , Kentucky 103, Duke 104 , Notre Dame 91, UConn 89 , Texas A&M 63, Stanford 62 St. John's home games were (and to this day still are) played at Alumni Hall and Madison Square Garden. When Curtin left Neenah High School in the spring of 1988, no other player in the long and storied history of the program had scored more points for the Rockets. Catch up on DI women's conference tourneys. 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He earned a scholarship to play at the University of Wisconsin and scored 16 points and had 12 rebounds in three seasons with the Badgers. St. John's Struggles in Home Finale Against UConn and Loses, 95-86. In his final high school game, Prasher scored 36 points in a 63-62 loss to rival Neenah in a WIAA Class A regional contest. Arkansas was the fourth national semifinalist. His career at Marquette was over due to NCAA rules, but he was able to play two seasons at NAIA UW-Oshkosh, where he led the team in scoring twice. This web site features a database of every game ever played (over 2,000 games!) : He scored a career-high 32 points in a victory at Lourdes Academy, making all 16 of his field-goal attempts in the contest. Skamoski scored 19 points and helped Neenah rally from a 31-13 deficit in the second period to register a 58-49 triumph over Beloit Memorial in the 1978 Class A title game. St. John's home games are played at Alumni Hall and Madison Square Garden. 9 Premieres Tonight on MSG Sports Network, St. Johns to Close 2022-23 Regular Season at No. Opens in new window. Baseball Basketball Cross Country Golf Lacrosse Soccer Swimming Tennis Track & Field Badminton Basketball Cross Country Field Hockey Lacrosse Soccer Softball Swimming Tennis Track & Field Volleyball Archived Stories Composite Calendar Directions Email Updates Gameday Programs History Historical Rosters Live Stats Live Video Podcast Social Media . First Team All-State 1988 AP (); :