NEW YORK – The latest preseason all-conference selection for Bryce Hopkins comes in a different men’s basketball uniform.

The standout forward has traded Providence for St. John’s entering this 2025-26 season, and Big East coaches expect a return to top form.

Left knee troubles have sidelined Hopkins for the majority of the last two years, but he was still one of six players named to the first team at Tuesday morning’s media day. Red Storm teammate Zuby Ejiofor was a unanimous preseason Player of the Year selection and St. John’s collected seven first-place votes to edge Connecticut in the team poll at Madison Square Garden.

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