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Billionaire Repole Funds NYC Basketball Comeback at St. John’s
St. John's Red Storm players during the Big East Men's Basketball Tournament at Madison Square Garden in New York City, on March 15.
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The St. John’s University men’s basketball team is relevant again. And all it took was a billionaire funder and a Hall of Fame coach.
The Red Storm, led by Rick Pitino, recently won the Big East Tournament for the first time in 25 years at a sold-out Madison Square Garden. Now, attention turns to a bigger prize: returning to the NCAA tournament as a No. 2 seed with a shot to make the Final Four for the first time since 1985.