{"id":202190,"date":"2026-04-19T00:11:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T00:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202190\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T00:11:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T00:11:22","slug":"what-remains-to-be-addressed-for-st-johns-following-jackpot-addition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202190\/","title":{"rendered":"What remains to be addressed for St. John&#8217;s following jackpot addition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most experts believe St. John\u2019s hit a home run with<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/14\/sports\/st-johns-beats-out-top-schools-for-explosive-english-point-guard-quinn-ellis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> the addition of international point guard Quinn Ellis<\/a>, a 6-foot-5 floor general who has been starting in the EuroLeague \u2014 considered the second-best league in the world after the NBA.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That coincided with a series of visits with current transfers. But the Johnnies have yet to land anyone else, although they are involved with a number of prospects.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here are three areas to watch as the offseason continues:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Who\u2019s in the middle\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>St. John\u2019s two biggest needs entering the offseason were at point guard and center. The Johnnies filled one of them with Ellis. Now, it has to find a Zuby Ejiofor replacement. The plan is to use the returning Ruben Prey at power forward.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Most experts believe St. John\u2019s hit a home run with the addition of international point guard Quinn Ellis,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3361,76661,9,24,55,54,56,319,428,3363],"class_list":["post-202190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-basketball-transfer-portal","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-st-johns-red-storm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202190","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=202190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}