Joe Deignan

Hello Johnnie basketball fans and welcome back to No Place I'd Rather Be, the podcast about St. John's University basketball and the legacy of Minnesota’s all-time collegiate wins leader Coach Jim Smith. Today, we’re back with our regularly scheduled programming as we continue to traverse the decades of Smitty’s 51-year career. But unlike our first two seasons, season three has a little something different … by the time we get to the end of this season we will have entered a new era of St. John's basketball as we get an insider’s look at the transition from Coach Smith to head coach Pat McKenzie, now in his tenth season at the helm of your favorite basketball team and entered the season with 174 wins to 53 losses. That’s … pretty good. But enough on that. We’ll get there. Today, we pick up right where we left off at the end of season two, smack dab in the middle of the 90s with ‘95 grad Joe Deignan, a two-time academic All-American who played 105 career games in the cardinal and blue, Deignan sits 27th all-time for SJU in points with 1,113 … 4th all-time with 333 career assists … fifth in three pointers made with 172 … 8th in games played … 8th in total minutes with 2,839 … tied for 10th in games started … and was a two-time All-MIAC selection. Also, while we try to keep this show as family-friendly as we can, there is some expressive language used on occasion throughout the episode with the bleeps. So with all of that, here is Joe Deignan with Coach Smith, Tom Connell and John Russett. 

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Thanks to Joe Deignan for sitting down and talking with the guys. 

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