Lamoriello was still Providence’s hockey coach when the Big East was founded in 1979. He watched as the late Dave Gavitt, his ...

UConn women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma plans to honor the late St. John's coach Lou Carnesecca when the Huskies visit ...

Lou Carnesecca is a New York legend. Carnesecca passed away over the weekend at the age of 99. He lived a wonderful life, and ...

"There wasn't one person who disliked Lou in those Big East meetings and everybody deferred to [him]," Rick Pitino said.

Lou Carnesecca was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 1992, making him one of dozens of college coaches honored. His numbers during 24 years at St. John’s made him an easy choice.

He coached St. John’s for 24 seasons over two stints — making a postseason tournament each year — and became the face of the ...

Lou Carnesecca died at the age of 99 on Saturday afternoon, leaving a hole in the St. John’s community and the New York basketball scene. But for those who coached against him in the Big East, the ...

In the long and storied history of New York City basketball, nobody wore it quite like Lou Carnesecca. The excitable St. John ...

Lou Carnesecca, one of the coaching icons of the early Big East, died Saturday at 99. UConn’s Jim Calhoun has fond memories ...