A winner at every stop he has made during his college basketball coaching career, Rick Pitino has the St. John's Red Storm rolling once again.

At 72 years old, Pitino’s contemporaries are pretty much gone from college basketball. Jim Boeheim talks on television. Mike Krzyzewski does a podcast. Roy Williams sits in the stands at North Carolina games like a fan. Leonard Hamilton announced Monday he’s calling it a career.

St. John’s was one of college basketball’s premier programs in the 1980s and ’90s but has been largely mediocre over the last two decades. It has made only three NCAA tourna