Mike Anderson is the Big East coach of the year, it was announced Wednesday, for leading St. John’s to a 16-10 regular-season record and 10-9 mark in the conference.
Anderson, who coached the University of Arkansas for eight seasons, was voted the Big East honor by the conference coaches.
St. John’s finished with a winning record in Big East play for the first time since the 2014-15 season and took fourth in the 11-team conference standings after being picked ninth in a preseason coaches’ poll.
Anderson is the third St. John's coach to be Big East Coach of the Year and first since Brian Mahoney in 1993 — the year Arkansas beat the Red Storm 80-74 in a second-round NCAA Tournament game with Anderson as a Razorbacks assistant coach for Nolan Richardson.