Yes, you read that headline correctly. St. John’s is currently in advanced talks to play against the Duke Blue Devils inside the famed Arthur Ashe Stadium in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in the 2024-25 season, according to Rick Pitino in a report by Jon Rothstein. The Red Storm are also in talks with Alabama to play at Madison Square Garden as part of a two-year home-and-home series starting next season, with St. John’s playing a road game in Birmingham, Alabama in the 2025-26 season.
“We’ll probably have a non-conference schedule that’s the best in St. John’s history,” Pitino told Rothstein, “It takes a year to build a schedule like that.