{"id":177073,"date":"2026-03-27T12:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/177073\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T12:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:58:07","slug":"st-johns-in-ncaa-tournament-sweet-16-friday-heres-where-to-watch-in-and-around-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/177073\/","title":{"rendered":"St. John’s in NCAA tournament Sweet 16 Friday. Here’s where to watch in and around NYC."},"content":{"rendered":"

The Red Storm is set to face the No. 1 overall seed Duke<\/a> in the next round of March Madness on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Tipoff starts at 7:10 p.m. in Washington D.C., with the Red Storm competing in the Sweet 16 for the first time in more than 20 years. They made it after defeating Kansas in a buzzer-beater<\/a> when Dylan Darling made the game-winning basket with 3.9 seconds left in the tied game.\u00a0<\/p>\n

St. John’s hasn’t made it this far since 1999<\/a>, and this is a stacked East Regional.<\/p>\n

Fans at the university in Queens and throughout the Tri-State Area are fired up to watch game. They rallied behind the team Wednesday with students and alumni taking part in a special send-off for the historic game.<\/p>\n

Gianna Volpe, a student on the dance team, said the campus has been buzzing, and everyone is so excited.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“They’ve had just such a great run this season, and if they want it tonight, they’ve got it,” she said.<\/p>\n

How to watch St. John’s in the NCAA tournament Friday<\/p>\n

You can watch the game on CBS New York live at 7:10 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If you’re looking for some watch parties in and around New York City, Long Island and New Jersey, here are some options:\u00a0<\/p>\n

Long Island<\/p>\n

Queens<\/p>\n

Brooklyn<\/p>\n

Manhattan<\/p>\n

Staten Island \u00a0<\/p>\n

New Jersey<\/p>\n

In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Red Storm is set to face the No. 1 overall seed Duke in the next round of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[63552,9,24,55,54,56,71760],"class_list":["post-177073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-st-john039s-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}