2022-23 SJU Basketball Schedule
COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. – The Saint John's University basketball team announced its 2022-23 schedule on Tuesday, Aug. 23.
Although the schedule is bookended by road games, four of SJU's first seven games are at home and eight of the final 14 games will be played in Sexton Arena.
The season starts Nov. 8 with a matchup at a fellow NCAA Division III Tournament team in 2021-22, Wisconsin-La Crosse, before SJU hosts back-to-back games against Wisconsin-Eau Claire (Nov. 12) and Buena Vista of Iowa (Nov. 16). The Johnnies' five non-conference opponents combined for a .654 winning percentage (87-46 record) last season.
MIAC play begins with a pair of road games at St. Olaf (Nov. 19) and Gustavus Adolphus (Nov. 22), before the Johnnies welcome two consecutive opponents to Collegeville in St. Scholastica (Nov. 30) and Augsburg (Dec. 3).
SJU end the 2022 calendar year with four straight road games, including the final two non-conference games Dec. 20-21 in Spokane, Wash. The Johnnies face host Whitworth, which went 22-5 and made the NCAA Tournament last season, in the opener and take on Linfield (Ore.) the following day.
Then after the new year, SJU makes a trip to Winona to face Saint Mary's on Jan. 7 before moving on to a three-game homestand against Concordia-Moorhead (Jan. 11), Bethel (Jan. 14) and Carleton (Jan. 16). The Johnnies follow two straight road trips with five of the regular season's last eight games in Collegeville, including Alumni and Senior Day Feb. 11 against Saint Mary's.
The MIAC quarterfinals are set for Tuesday, Feb. 21, and the MIAC semifinals follow on Thursday, Feb. 23. The MIAC championship game, with the conference's automatic berth to the NCAA Division III tournament on the line, is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 25. The high seed hosts in all three rounds.
The 2022-23 season is the 50th for SJU in the Warner Palaestra/Sexton Arena, where the Johnnies boast a 449-148 (.752) all-time record, including a 52-7 (.881) mark over the last five years.
The Johnnies (23-5, 17-2 MIAC) won their second consecutive MIAC regular-season championship (10th overall) and third consecutive MIAC Playoff title (eighth overall) in 2021-22. SJU made its fourth NCAA Tournament appearance in a row and ended the regular season ranked No. 24 nationally.
