2025-26 Rankings

[ADORAZ]

After our best season in a quarter century, next season has the potential to be even better. Still a week until the preseason rankings start coming out, but the transfer rankings are pretty impressive to say the least.

St. John's has picked up #6 Bryce Hopkins (#1 Forward) and #12 Joson Sanon (#9 Guard). Silas Demary Jr. visited today and is #10 overall (#8 Guard).

2025 College Basketball Transfer Portal

2025 College basketball Transfer Portal

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St. John's also has the #1 transfer class in the nation currently.

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Think worst case we'll be Top 15-25 preseason, and Top 5 wouldn't surprise me. Wish Luis returned, but between retaining Zuby and adding a couple stars this has been an incredible start to the off-season.

 

[dk423]

Rothstein already said we're a lock for 10-15 on his rankings, just by getting Hopkins

 

[ADORAZ]

Rothstein already said we're a lock for 10-15 on his rankings, just by getting Hopkins

Yep, I'm guessing we'll be top 5-10 preseason, but a ways to go obviously. Also he said we'll have unequivocally the best 4/5 combo in the country.

 

[dk423]

Yep, I'm guessing we'll be top 5-10 preseason, but a ways to go obviously. Also he said we'll have unequivocally the best 4/5 combo in the country.

I think the quality of PG we nab will be the ultimate difference maker between being ranked #15 to being ranked as high as, yeah, #1.

 

[ADORAZ]

I think the quality of PG we nab will be the ultimate difference maker between being ranked #15 to being ranked as high as, yeah, #1.

I agree #1 wouldn't be out of the question if we can get someone like Silas, but that may be an uphill battle.

Also, I know a lot of people put little to no stock into preseason rankings, and there is some truth to that (for example Kansas was preseason #1 this year).

That said, as we saw this year the rankings are extremely important for attendance and overall publicity. With the way our season ended some casual fans have started questioning how good we'll be going forward. Securing a top 5-15 preseason ranking would help maintain the program's momentum over the next 7 months, which would be huge for things such as season ticket sales, OOC ticket sales, merchandise sales, NIL, etc.

 

[room112]

On a related note, wondering what our end of year ranking for this season will be. Any guesses?

 

[Moose]

On a related note, wondering what our end of year ranking for this season will be. Any guesses?

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