{"id":185476,"date":"2026-04-04T14:24:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185476\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T14:24:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:24:20","slug":"the-moments-that-shaped-unforgettable-2026-st-johns-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185476\/","title":{"rendered":"The moments that shaped unforgettable 2026 St. John&#8217;s season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 It was a memorable season, a year that started slow, but <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/27\/sports\/st-johns-wild-ride-ending-in-tears-proves-one-thing-about-unique-character\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">finished incredibly well<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time since 1999, St. John\u2019s advanced to the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Zuby Ejiofor became the first Johnnie to be named both the Big East Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year in the same season.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s relive <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/28\/sports\/end-mightve-been-painful-but-this-is-just-the-beginning-for-st-johns\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the best Red Storm season this century<\/a> with eight moments that defined the season:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 It was a memorable season, a year that started slow, but finished incredibly well. For the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[74589,3361,30243,30245,68679,9,24,55,54,56,4780,3362,319,428,3363,3602,28468],"class_list":{"0":"post-185476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-bryce-hopkins","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-dylan-darling","11":"tag-inside-st-johns","12":"tag-march-madness-2026","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","16":"tag-new-york-city-news","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","19":"tag-rick-pitino","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-sports-plus","22":"tag-st-johns-red-storm","23":"tag-uconn-huskies","24":"tag-zuby-ejiofor"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185476","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=185476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}