1961–62 St. John's Redmen basketball team

The 1961–62 St. John's Redmen basketball team represented St. John's University during the 1961–62 college basketball season. The team was coached by Joe Lapchick his seventeenth year at the school. This was St. John's first season playing their home games in Alumni Hall on the new Queens campus in Hillside, NY along with a few of their major games being played in Madison Square Garden in New York, NY.

1961–62 St. John's Redmen men's basketball
NIT Second Place
NIT Championship vs. Dayton, L, 67-75
ConferenceMetropolitan New York Conference
Ranking
CoachesNo. 12
Record21–5 (5–0 Metro NY)
Head coach
Assistant coachLou Carnesecca (4th season)
CaptainKevin Loughery
Home arenaAlumni Hall
Madison Square Garden
1961–62 Metropolitan New York Conference men's basketball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
St. John's50 1.000215  .808
CCNY21 .66799  .500
NYU32 .600205  .800
St. Francis (NY)23 .400815  .348
Manhattan13 .2501210  .545
Fordham13 .2501014  .417
Brooklyn02 .000413  .235
Rankings from AP Poll

They finished with a 21–5 record and a second-place finish in the 1962 National Invitation Tournament losing Dayton in the finals.

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