play most of their home games at Madison Square Garden, "The World's Most Famous Arena", while their early non-conference games are held at Carnesecca Arena on the St. John's campus in Queens. St. John's University holds the second best winning percentage for a New York City school in the NCAA basketball tournament (second to City College of New York – which won one NCAA Div 1 Championships as the CCNY Beavers men's basketball) St. John's has the most NIT appearances with 27, the most championship wins with 6, although they were stripped of one due to an NCAA infraction. In 2008, St. John's celebrated its 100th year of college basketball.
=== Fencing ===
The St. John's fencing program, coached for three decades (since 1995) by Olympic coach Yury Gelman, has also attained national prominence including Olympians Keeth Smart and (later banned for life) Ivan Lee. In 2001, St. John's won the NCAA fencing championship. The men's team has ranked in the top seven in each of the last 30 years, and finished 2nd in …
