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Basketball All-America Honors: St. John’s RJ Luis Jr. named an AP Second Team All-American by Robert Rizzo March 18, 2025 Image Credit: Big East Conference/St. John’s Men’s Basketball NEW YORK, NY — The Dominican-Ecuadorian kid from Miami, Florida, is an All-American. On Tuesday afternoon, St. John’s Red Storm RJ Luis Jr. was named a Second Team All-American, as the announcement was made by the Associated Press. To become the first St. John’s player in program history to earn AP All-America Status since Ron Artest (Metta Sandiford-Artest) in 1999, the six-seven junior wing Luis Jr. — the 2024-2025 Big East Player of the Year, and 2025 Big East Tournament Most Outstanding Player — leading the Red Storm on an ongoing historic 30-4 campaign, recorded 18.4 points per game this season on 44.4% shooting from the field, with 7.2 rebounds, 2.1 assists, and 1.4 steals. Across his 33 contests on the year, Luis Jr. hit the 20-point benchmark in 13 games and totaled 10 double-doubles, which was the most for a player in the Big East Conference this season. RJ Luis Jr. is one-of-six players to ever sweep the Big East Conference awards in a given season (BE POTY, BE regular season champ, BE tournament champ, & BE tournament MVP) – Image Credit: St. John’s Men’s Basketball “I mean, just super blessed,” said Luis Jr. “I got to give all the glory to God. I feel like he’s truly just paved the way for all of us (him and his teammates) and it’s a pretty unique story that he’s created for us.” “Not only for us, but also for those other families out there that we’re inspiring.” 2025 AP All-Americans: FIRST TEAM Cooper Flagg, Duke (unanimous) Johni Broome, Auburn Braden Smith, Purdue Mark Sears, Alabama Walter Clayton Jr., Florida SECOND TEAM J.T. Toppin, Texas Tech Kam Jones, Marquette John Tonje, Wisconsin P.J. Haggerty, Memphis *R.J. Luis Jr., St. John’s, Dominican-Ecuadorian THIRD TEAM Ryan Kalkbrenner, Creighton *Zakai Zeigler, Tennessee, Puerto Rican Eric Dixon, Villanova L.J. Cryer, Houston Hunter Dickinson, Kansas Follow us on Social Media for updates and exclusive content Instagram: @latinosportsoficial Facebook: Latino Sports Twitter: @latinosports Related Topics All-America AP AP Second Team All-American Associated Press Big East Big East Conference College Basketball College Men’s Basketball Dominican Republic Ecuador featured NCAA NCAA Men’s Basketball Red Storm RJ Luis Jr. Ron Artest Second Team All-American St. Johns St. Johns Red Storm St. Johns University Tennessee Tennessee Volunteers Zakai Zeigler Click to comment Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked * Comment * Name * Email * Website Advertisement Facebook Latest Article Baseball / 1 month ago 35TH ANNUAL LATINO MVP AWARDS – 2024 OFFICIAL BALLOT ANNOUNCED BRONX, NY (February 10th, 2025) — It has been thirty five (35) years since… By Press Release Baseball / 3 hours ago Austin Wells receives commemorative LatinoMVP Award T-shirt in Spring Training TAMPA, FL — New York Yankees’ Austin Wells, a candidate for the 2024 American… By Julian Guilarte Basketball / 6 hours ago All-America Honors: St. John’s RJ Luis Jr. named an AP Second Team All-American NEW YORK, NY — The Dominican-Ecuadorian kid from Miami, Florida, is an All-American. On… By Robert Rizzo Baseball / 13 hours ago 2024 NL LatinoMVP Reliever of the Year finalist Robert Suárez: ‘Being nominated for this award motivates us’ PEORIA, AZ — I had the opportunity to talk to San Diego Padres’ Robert… By Julio Pabón Baseball / 13 hours ago The First Latino from Each Country in MLB – El Primer Latino de Cada País en MLB “In baseball, you have to be patient and accept the bad with the good…. By Juan Vené More in Basketball 🎥 WATCH: Knicks’ superstar Karl-Anthony Towns goes on his own 15-0 run vs. Heat Follow us on Social Media for updates and exclusive content Instagram: @latinosportsoficial Facebook: Latino… Big East Player of the Year and Tournament Most Outstanding Player St. John’s RJ Luis Jr.: ‘This has been the best week of my entire life’ NEW YORK, NY — Throughout the course of “Champ Week,” the 2024-2025 Big East… Storming Into Big East Tournament Championship: St. John’s beats Marquette in Semifinals of Big East Tourney NEW YORK, NY — A Saturday night Big East Conference Tournament Championship appearance at… Movin’ On To Friday: St. John’s advances to Big East Tournament Semifinals NEW YORK, NY — There are not many environments in sports that can match… 🎥 WATCH: Knicks’ superstar Karl-Anthony Towns goes on his own 15-0 run vs. Heat
