2019-20 SJU Basketball Schedule

COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. – After three road non-conference games, the Saint John's University basketball team hosts Carleton Nov. 20 at Sexton Arena.

It's the MIAC home-opener for the Johnnies, which makes it an important date. But they'll also have a long home-court winning streak on the line. 

Since late in the 2016-17 season, the Johnnies have won 26 consecutive home regular-season contests. The Johnnies are scheduled to play 10 home games in 2019-20.

SJU opens the season against Nebraska Wesleyan - the first of two non-conference games Nov. 8-9 in Superior, Wis. - which went 27-2 last season and 30-3 en route to the 2018 NCAA Division III title. The Johnnies will play either Marian (Wis.) or host Wisconsin-Superior the following day.

Non-conference play continues with a trip to Minnesota-Morris Nov. 13 before SJU hosts Carleton Nov. 20. The ledger consists of four straight road games after that, including two in Oregon Dec. 20-21 at Linfield and Willamette, respectively.

The Johnnies return from the holidays Jan. 4 to take on Augsburg in Collegeville, a rematch of last year's MIAC playoff title game, before they visit a pair of MIAC playoff teams in St. Olaf (Jan. 6) and St. Thomas (Jan. 11).

Over half of SJU's home games come in two, three-game homestands over a three-week period. The first is a three-game stretch against Saint Mary's (Jan. 15), Bethel (Jan. 18) and Macalester (Jan. 20), then three more in a row against Gustavus Adolphus (Jan. 29), Hamline (Feb. 1) and St. Olaf (Feb. 5).

The Johnnies play host to St. Thomas for Alumni and Senior Day Feb. 15 and end the regular season a week later, Feb. 22, at Bethel.

For the second consecutive season, SJU led the MIAC in per-game attendance (825 avg.) and finished 14th in NCAA Division III in 2018-19.

SJU (23-5, 17-3 MIAC) won its sixth MIAC Playoff championship in program history (first since 2001) and made its second consecutive national tournament appearance in 2018-19, ending the season ranked No. 23 nationally. The Johnnies ended the 2018-19 season as the Division III statistical leader in shooting percentage (.536), second in rebound margin (+12.6 rpg.), third in scoring margin (+18.0 ppg.) and eighth in three-point percentage (.407).