1958–59 St. John's Redmen basketball team

1958–59 St. John's Redmen men's basketball
ECAC Holiday Festival Champions
NIT Champions
NIT Championship vs. Bradley, W, 76-71 2OT
ConferenceMetropolitan New York Conference
Ranking
CoachesNo. 17
Record20–6 (4–2 Metropolitan New York Conference)
Head coach
Assistant coachLou Carnesecca
CaptainAl Seiden
Home arenaMartin Van Buren High School
Madison Square Garden
1958–59 Metropolitan New York Conference men's basketball standings
Conf.Overall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
Manhattan40 1.000156  .714
Brooklyn31 .750810  .444
St. John's42 .667206  .769
Fordham22 .500178  .680
NYU22 .500158  .652
CCNY16 .143612  .333
St. Francis (NY)03 .000518  .217
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1958–59 St. John's Redmen basketball team represented St. John's University during the 1958–59 NCAA Division I college basketball season. The team was coached by Joseph Lapchick in his fourteenth year at the school and also was the first season Lou Carnesecca joined the basketball program as an assistant coach. The team was a member of the Metropolitan New York Conference. During this time the university was transitioning from Brooklyn to Queens, so the basketball team played their home games at Martin Van Buren High School in Queens, NY and Madison Square Garden in Manhattan while their new on campus arena, Alumni Hall, was being built.