While exiled from college basketball in 2019 and coaching in Greece after a tumultuous ending to his Louisville tenure, Rick ...

Lou Carnesecca, the excitable St. John’s coach whose outlandish sweaters became an emblem of his team’s dazzling Final Four run in 1985, has died at 99, just a few weeks shy of what would have ...

Carnesecca, who died on Nov. 30, would have turned 100 on Sunday. Carnesecca led St. John’s to Big East titles in 1983 and 1986 and won the conference’s coach of the year honor three times.

Carnesecca coached St. John's to its fifth NIT title in 1989, although by then the tournament had long been a poor cousin to the NCAAs. He entered the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1992, the year he ...