SJU Trivia

[MainMan]

Aside from its Big East retrospective last year, Sports Illustrated has featured St. John's players on four of its covers. Name the players (from earliest issue to latest) and the reason they were on the cover.

 

[SJU61982]

Aside from its Big East retrospective last year, Sports Illustrated has featured St. John's players on four of its covers. Name the players (from earliest issue to latest) and the reason they were on the cover.

This one I actually know:

Billy Goodwin - Big East Title

Walter Berry (and Bill Wennington) - Win over Georgetown to become #1 in the nation

Chris Mullin - 3 Big East Teams in Final Four

Felipe Lopez _ #1 freshman in nation (I believe it was the season preview issue).

 

[MainMan]

Wennington was the trick in the question. Well done.

Who is this?

 

[tom in salem]

Steve Shurina, who posted here quite often after Fran was fired.

 

[frank]

the only basketball team to be on the cover of life magazine ever

 

[salty dog]

Another one for Redken. Name some Johnnie's
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[Las Vegan]

Looks like Ralph Abraham.

 

[redken]

Looks like Ralph Abraham.

Ralph Abraham it is ... with Joe Depre and Danny Cornelius on the left. Sadly, Ralph, a passionate educator, passed away in 2012.

 

[salty dog]

Jumping against the great Sydney Wicks

 

[salty dog]

with Kenny Heitz behind..
That was a very good Redmen team and Looie recruited Paultz (the Whopper) with this game in mind,
He told Bill, while recruiting him, that he would be going against Alcindor and UCLA at the new Garden.

 

[gonzalo]

MainMan,

Have you seen your Private Messages?

 

[MainMan]

Identify as many people in this photo as you can.

 

[TheSummit]

Rick Bollinger, Wayne McKoy, Tom Abatemarco, Gordon Thomas, Lou Carnesecca, John Kresse, Frank Gilroy, Tom Calabrese, Rudy Wright. Don't know the guy in the hat.

 

[redken]

Identify as many people in this photo as you can.

Terrific! The only one I immediately got was Rudy Wright.

 

[TheSummit]

I was there in school at this time. I went to the games and saw some of the players around campus.

 

[MainMan]

I was there in school at this time. I went to the games and saw some of the players around campus.

Want to take a shot at where they are and who they're preparing for?

 

[TheSummit]

Looks like an away game; at Fordham?

 

[salty dog]

I was there in school at this time. I went to the games and saw some of the players around campus.

Want to take a shot at where they are and who they're preparing for?

Sweet Sixteen game against Rutgers at Greensboro Coliseum March 1979

 

[beast of the east]

St. John's got off to a 9-8 start in the 1978-79 season, Carter's junior year, and was the last team selected for the N.C.A.A. tournament. But Carter teamed up with Wayne McKoy, a center who had been his high school teammate at Long Island Lutheran in Brookville, to provide exciting moments in the post-season.

After St. John's defeated Temple in the first round, Carter's jump shot with five seconds left brought 10th-seeded St. John's an 80-78 victory over second-seeded Duke in Raleigh, N.C. The following weekend, in Greensboro, N.C., McKoy scored, also with five seconds remaining, for a 67-65 victory over Rutgers. But St. John's was beaten by Penn, 64-62, in the East Regional final.

Carter, 6 feet 3 inches, averaged 15 points a game as both a junior and a senior and scored 1,061 points over two and a half seasons at St. John's.

Carter was a high school all-American and then starred as a freshman at the University of Hawaii. He transferred to St. John's after the N.C.A.A. found that Hawaii had engaged in recruiting violations

 

[GardenCity62]

Reggie Carter is the player Jordan reminds me of.