Tip-off between St. Joseph and Notre Dame in a non-conference game in Metuchen on February 1, 2024. (Source: St. Joe’s Student Media on YouTube)
By any measure, the most successful run for the St. Joseph-Metuchen boys’ basketball program was the decade of the 2010s.
During that stretch, the Falcons won nine of ten Greater Middlesex Conference Tournaments, and made three straight Tournament of Champions, winning the event in 2014 led by the trio of Karl-Anthony Towns, Marques Townes, and Wade Baldwin.
Karl’s parents were at just about every game, even while his father was the coach at Piscataway Tech (now Piscataway Magnet).
Now? K-A-T is in the NBA, traded this season from Minnesota to the Knicks, and Coach Towns has taken over to lead the St. Joseph basketball program, along with assistant coach John Nessler.
While St. Joseph was the top-seed in last year’s GMC Tournament, they failed to reach the finals, falling by five to St. Thomas Aquinas in the semis. And losing top players like Jeremy Clayville – who averaged over 20 points a game last year and is scoring just over nine as a freshman at St. Francis – and Own Griffin will be a challenge.
Click below to hear St. Joseph Assistant John Nessler talk about the Falcons and Saturday night’s matchup with Montgomery:
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