Rick Pitino doesn't put much stock in his St. John's team being No. 1 in the Big East Conference preseason poll for the first time in three decades.

“I really don’t pay too much attention to prognosticating because especially in this day and age, I don’t even know the names of the players (on the other teams),” the Hall of Fame coach said at Big East media day.

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The Red Storm received seven of the first-place votes from the conference's coaches Tuesday. UConn garnered the other four. It's the first time since 1991-92 that St. John's held the top spot in the preseason poll.

The team is led by Zuby Ejiofor, who was selected as the conference's preseason player of the year. The senior forward averaged 14.7 points and 8

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